What Day of the Week

December 7, 2021 was the 341^st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 24 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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.

Sagittarius 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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• 1776

  Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
• 1862

  US Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
• 1930

  W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
• 1963

  Instant replay makes its debut during an Army–Navy game.
• 1983

  An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.
• 1987

  Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
• 1993

  The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
• 1995

  The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
• 2005

  Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
• 2007

  The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit.

• 1905

  Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 1973)
• 1932

  Ellen Burstyn, American actress
• 1937

  Thad Cochran, American politician, senator from Mississippi
• 1944

  Miroslav Macek, Czech politician
• 1947

  Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960

  Craig Scanlon, English guitarist (The Fall)
• 1968

  Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1971

  Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player
• 1972

  Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
• 1973

  Fabien Pelous, French international rugby player

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