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

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