What day of the week was December 1, 2013?

The day of the week December 1st, 2013 fell on was a Sunday.

There were 24 days until Christmas.

Heinrich Boere the German SS officer (b. 1921) died on this day in 2013. As did Richard Coughlan the English drummer (Caravan and The Wilde Flowers) (b. 1947) , Stirling Colgate the American physicist and academic (b. 1925) , Walter E. Ellis the American serial killer (b. 1960) , T. R. Fehrenbach the American historian, journalist, and author (b. 1925) , Edward Heffron the American soldier (b. 1923) , André Schiffrin the French-American author and publisher (b. 1935) , Martin Sharp the Australian cartoonist and songwriter (b. 1942) .

China launches Yutu or Jade Rabbit the its first lunar rover, as part of the Chang'e 3 lunar exploration mission.