What Day of the Week

December 24, 2021 is the 358^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 7 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 1906

  Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
• 1911

  Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
• 1914

  World War I: The “Christmas truce” begins.
• 1929

  Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
• 1939

  World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
• 1941

  World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
• 1951

  Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
• 1953

  Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.
• 2000

  The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery.
• 2003

  The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid’s busy Chamartín Station.

• 1389

  John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)
• 1635

  Mariana of Austria, second wife of king Philip IV of Spain (d. 1696)
• 1822

  Matthew Arnold, British poet (d. 1888)
• 1837

  Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi, Empress of Austria (d. 1898)
• 1894

  Georges Guynemer, French aviator (d. 1917)
• 1923

  George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
• 1945

  Lemmy, British singer, bassist (Motörhead)
• 1950

  Dana Gioia, American poet
• 1963

  Mary Ramsey, American singer (10,000 Maniacs)
• 1981

  Dima Bilan, Russian pop artist

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