What day of the week was December 12, 2012?

The day of the week December 12th, 2012 fell on was a Wednesday.

There were 13 days until Christmas.

Joe Allbritton the American banker, publisher, and philanthropist, founded the Allbritton Communications Company (b. 1924) died on this day in 2012. As did David Tait the English rugby player (b. 1987) , Nityanand Swami the Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttarakhand (b. 1927) , Augustin Sagna the Senegalese bishop (b. 1920) , N.M. Mohan the Indian author and illustrator (b. 1949) , Walt Kirk the American basketball player and coach (b. 1924) , Else Marie Jakobsen the Norwegian designer (b. 1927) , Richard Eyre the English priest (b. 1929) , Eddie "Guitar" Burns the American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928) , Ray Briem the American radio host (b. 1930) .

North Korea successfully launches its first satellite the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using a Unha-3 carrier rocket.