What Day of the Week

December 29, 2020 is the 364^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 2 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1170

  Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church.
• 1813

  British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812.
• 1890

  United States soldiers kill more than 200 Oglala Lakota people with four Hotchkiss guns in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
• 1911

  Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
• 1914

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.
• 1934

  Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
• 1937

  The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
• 1959

  Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.
• 1972

  An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed Tristar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
• 1992

  Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.

• 1709

  Empress Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
• 1808

  Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
• 1876

  Pau Casals, Catalan musician (d. 1973)
• 1908

  Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (d. 1993)
• 1910

  Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1954

  Roger Voudouris, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1961

  Jim Reid, Scottish singer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat)
• 1965

  Dexter Holland, American musician (The Offspring)
• 1973

  Pimp C, American rapper (UGK) (d. 2007)
• 1978

  Steve Kemp, British musician (Hard-Fi)

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