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 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.

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
• 1572

  Theologian Johann Sylvan executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs
• 1793

  The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
• 1913

  The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.
• 1916

  World War I: Battle of Magdhaba – Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
• 1921

  Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
• 1936

  Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1941

  World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island.
• 1947

  The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
• 1968

  The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.

• 1597

  Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (d. 1639)
• 1713

  Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna (d. 1749)
• 1732

  Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)
• 1743

  Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
• 1885

  Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964)
• 1900

  Otto Soglow, American comics artist (d. 1975)
• 1907

  Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)
• 1951

  Anthony Phillips, British musician (Genesis)
• 1958

  Victoria Williams, American singer
• 1962

  Keiji Mutoh, Japanese professional wrestler

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