What Day of the Week

December 9, 2020 is the 344^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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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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• 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.
• 1872

  In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
• 1897

  Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
• 1958

  The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
• 1961

  Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
• 1961

  The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
• 1966

  Barbados joins the United Nations.
• 1968

  NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
• 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.
• 1979

  The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.

• 1861

  Hélène Smith, French psychic (d. 1929)
• 1870

  Ida S. Scudder, Indian physician, Founder, Christian Medical College & Hospital, India (d. 1960)
• 1887

  Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1958)
• 1895

  Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish political leader (d. 1989)
• 1911

  Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
• 1940

  Clancy Eccles, Jamaican Reggae Musician (d. 2005)
• 1966

  Julio Alberto Rodas Hurtarte, former soccer player
• 1971

  Geoff Barrow, English musician (Portishead)
• 1974

  Rahat Fateh Ali Khan,Pakistani singer
• 1979

  Chen Hao, Chinese actress

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