What Day of the Week

December 23, 2020 is the 358^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 8 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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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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• 962

  Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo
• 1793

  The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
• 1893

  The opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
• 1919

  Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the UK.
• 1938

  Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
• 1940

  World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Υ-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
• 1941

  World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island.
• 1948

  Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.
• 2002

  A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.
• 2003

  PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.

• 1867

  Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (d. 1919)
• 1878

  Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
• 1896

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (d. 1957)
• 1911

  Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
• 1918

  Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
• 1933

  Akihito, Emperor of Japan
• 1953

  Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia
• 1970

  Holly Samos, British radio presenter
• 1977

  Alge Crumpler, American football player
• 1981

  Mario Santana, Argentine footballer

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