What Day of the Week

December 21, 2022 is the 355^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 10 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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Here’s the December calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1598

  Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.
• 1832

  Egyptian–Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
• 1879

  World première of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.
• 1910

  An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
• 1919

  American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
• 1937

  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
• 1962

  Rondane National Park is established as Norway’s first national park.
• 1968

  Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
• 1992

  A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.
• 1994

  Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.

• 1118

  Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170)
• 1850

  Zdeněk Fibich, Bohemian composer (d. 1900)
• 1917

  Heinrich Böll, German writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
• 1920

  Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (d. 1988)
• 1921

  Robert Lipshutz, American attorney and counsel to the Carter Adminisrtation (d. 2010)
• 1924

  Rita Reys, Dutch jazzsinger
• 1935

  Yusuf Bey, American activist (d. 2003)
• 1953

  Betty Wright, American singer
• 1955

  Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese musician
• 1987

  Valerie Concepcion, Filipino actress

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