What Day of the Week

December 22, 2019 is the 356^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 9 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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

Capricorn 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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• 69

  Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered at the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
• 1864

  Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his “March to the Sea”.
• 1894

  The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
• 1944

  World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: “Nuts!”
• 1956

  Colo, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity, is born at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio.
• 1989

  Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
• 1990

  The Parliament of Croatia adopts the current Constitution of Croatia.
• 1999

  Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error. All 4 crew members are killed.
• 2001

  Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
• 2010

  The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

• 244

  Diocletian, Roman Emperor (d. 311)
• 1095

  Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)
• 1860

  Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (d. 1927)
• 1888

  J. Arthur Rank, British film producer (d. 1972)
• 1901

  André Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger (d. 1980)
• 1905

  Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
• 1925

  Lewis Glucksman, American financier (d. 2006)
• 1939

  James Gurley, American musician (d. 2009)
• 1947

  Brian Daley, American science-fiction writer (d. 1996)
• 1975

  Sergei Aschwanden, Swiss judoka

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