Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: December 25
December 25, 2024 is the 360th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 6 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Turquoise is your modern birthstone. Onyx is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: December 25
- 800 –Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
- 1000 –The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
- 1553 –Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
- 1599 –The city of Natal, Brazil is founded.
- 1868 –U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
- 1914 –World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
- 1926 –Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
- 1932 –A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
- 1941 –Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
- 1946 –The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1.
Who were born on December 25?
- 1700 –Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1758)
- 1889 –Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader’s Digest) (d. 1984)
- 1906 –Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born film producer (d. 1998)
- 1923 –Rene Girard, French historian, literary critic and philosopher
- 1935 –Anne Roiphe, American author and feminist
- 1946 –Larry Csonka, American football player
- 1950 –Karl Rove, former American presidential advisor
- 1968 –Jim Dowd, American ice hockey player
- 1975 –Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer
- 1978 –Simon Jones, English cricketer
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