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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• 1851

  The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
• 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.
• 1911

  A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
• 1950

  Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• 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.
• 1973

  British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
• 1979

  The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
• 2000

  The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount.

• 1868

  Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
• 1889

  Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1966)
• 1899

  Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)
• 1934

  Junior Wells, American musician (d. 1998)
• 1955

  Otis Birdsong, American basketball player
• 1958

  Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents)
• 1972

  Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
• 1974

  Aloísio, Brazilian footballer
• 1974

  Canibus, American rapper
• 1990

  LaFee, German singer

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