What day of the week was December 20, 1888?

The day of the week December 20th, 1888 fell on was a Thursday.

There were 5 days until Christmas.

Yitzhak Baer the German-Israeli historian and academic (d. 1980) was born on 20 December in 1888. As was Fred Merkle the American baseball player and manager (d. 1958) .