What Day of the Week

December 9, 2018 was the 343^rd day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 22 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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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• 1425

  The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
• 1824

  Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
• 1888

  Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
• 1897

  Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
• 1922

  Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
• 1946

  The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
• 1956

  Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
• 1962

  The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
• 1965

  The Kecksburg UFO incident: a fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.
• 1969

  United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

• 1813

  Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
• 1850

  Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
• 1867

  Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek writer (d. 1951)
• 1934

  Dame Judi Dench, English actress
• 1937

  Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1946

  Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
• 1952

  Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
• 1964

  Johannes B. Kerner, German TV presenter
• 1977

  Shayne Graham, American football player
• 1990

  LaFee, German singer

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