What Day of the Week

December 31, 2021 is the 365^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 1229

  James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca.
• 1790

  Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today is published for the first time.
• 1853

  A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England, United Kingdom
• 1862

  American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
• 1983

  In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Nigerian Second Republic.
• 1986

  A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
• 1991

  All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
• 1994

  This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC-10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
• 1998

  The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
• 1999

  The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties.

• 1830

  Alexander Smith, Scottish poet (d. 1867)
• 1912

  Maj-Gen John Frost, British para commander (d. 1993)
• 1938

  Rosalind Cash, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1944

  Neil Ross, British-American voice actor
• 1945

  Barbara Carrera, Nicaraguan actress and model
• 1945

  Connie Willis, American writer
• 1945

  Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-born fashion designer
• 1949

  Ellen Datlow, American editor
• 1975

  Toni Kuivasto, Finnish footballer
• 1980

  Jesse Carlson, American baseball player

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