What day of the week was December 20, 1740?

The day of the week December 20th, 1740 fell on was a Tuesday.

There were 5 days until Christmas.

Arthur Lee the American physician and diplomat (d. 1792) was born on 20 December in 1740.

Richard Boyle the 2nd Viscount Shannon, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Portsmouth (b. 1675) died on this day in 1740.