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Saturday, December 19, 2026
Saturday, December 19, 2026 falls on a Saturday. It is day 353 of the year, ISO week 51, in Q4.
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Saturday, December 19
December 19, 2026 is day 353 of 365, ISO week 51, in Q4. The moon is Waxing Gibbous and the zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Day of year353
ISO week51
QuarterQ4
Days left12
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous
- Lunar age
- 10.1 days
- Illumination
- 77%
- Season
- Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, spring in the Southern Hemisphere
Zodiac and Holidays
- Zodiac
- Sagittarius
- Observances
- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
- Shareable URL
- /date/2026-12-19
Today's Celebrations
December 19
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Lillian Trasher (Episcopal Church)
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O Radix
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Pope Anastasius I
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Pope Urban V
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December 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Saint Nicholas Day
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Goa Liberation Day (Goa, India)
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National Heroes and Heroines Day (Anguilla)
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Local briefSaturday, December 19, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2016: Andrei Karlov (pictured), Russia's ambassador to Turkey, was assassinated at an art gallery in Ankara.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to December 19.
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Andrei Karlov (pictured), Russia's ambassador to Turkey, was assassinated at an art gallery in Ankara.
The European Space Agency's spacecraft Gaia was launched with the goal of constructing the largest and most precise star catalogue ever made.
SilkAir Flight 185 crashed into the Musi River in Indonesia, killing 104 people.
Titanic, the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time with a worldwide total of more than US$2.2 billion, was released in the United States.
Aeroflot Flight 101/435 was hijacked by its co-pilot; it landed in a cow pasture in China, where he was apprehended.
China and the United Kingdom signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997.
The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to the winner of the FIFA World Cup, was stolen from the offices of the Brazilian Football Confederation.
The ruling junta of South Vietnam, led by Nguyễn Khánh, initiated a coup, dissolving the High National Council, a civilian advisory body.
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Wincey Willis, British broadcaster (born 1948)
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Sally Ann Howes, English-American singer and actress (born 1930)
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Johnny Isakson, American politician (born 1944)
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Rosalind Knight, English actress (born 1933)
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Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey (born 1954)
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