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 French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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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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• 1814

  The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812.
• 1826

  The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
• 1871

  Aida opens in Cairo.
• 1924

  Albania becomes a republic.
• 1951

  Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
• 1964

  Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.
• 1966

  A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
• 1973

  District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
• 1980

  Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called “Britain’s Roswell”.
• 2008

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

• 1588

  Constance of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1631)
• 1754

  George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (d. 1832)
• 1896

  Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese law student, designer of the Flag of the Faroe Islands (d. 1920)
• 1905

  Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
• 1934

  Stjepan Mesić, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia
• 1955

  Grand L. Bush, American actor
• 1958

  Paul Pressey, American basketball player
• 1968

  Doyle Bramhall II, American guitarist
• 1969

  Sean Michael, South African actor
• 1986

  Kyrylo Fesenko, Ukrainian basketball player

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