What Day of the Week

December 24, 2019 is the 358^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 7 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 563

  The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.
• 1294

  Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
• 1871

  Aida opens in Cairo.
• 1924

  Albania becomes a republic.
• 1939

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

  World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
• 1942

  World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers.
• 1974

  Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
• 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.
• 2008

  Lord’s Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.

• 1166

  King John of England (d. 1216)
• 1822

  Matthew Arnold, British poet (d. 1888)
• 1879

  Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (d. 1941)
• 1952

  Christopher Buckley, American author and political commentator
• 1958

  Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (d. 2008)
• 1968

  Marleen Renders, Belgian athlete
• 1974

  Ryan Seacrest, American television host
• 1986

  Kyrylo Fesenko, Ukrainian basketball player
• 1991

  Louis Tomlinson, Member of British/Irish boy band One Direction
• 2000

  Ethan Bortnick, American musician

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