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 Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.

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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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• 1769

  Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769) ends with an uneasy truce.
• 1807

  The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
• 1808

  Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).
• 1951

  The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
• 1965

  In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
• 1974

  The house of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
• 1984

  Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan, New York City.
• 1989

  After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Communist authoritarian regime.
• 1992

  The Archives of Terror are discovered.
• 2001

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

• 1723

  Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787)
• 1765

  Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)
• 1872

  Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)
• 1905

  Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
• 1936

  Hector Elizondo, American actor
• 1967

  Paul Morris, Australian racing driver
• 1969

  Myriam Bédard, Canadian athlete
• 1975

  Sergei Aschwanden, Swiss judoka
• 1975

  Stanislav Neckář, Czech ice hockey player
• 1976

  Katleen De Caluwé, Belgian athlete

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