What day of the week was December 5, 2008?

The day of the week December 5th, 2008 fell on was a Friday.

There were 20 days until Christmas.

Alexy II of Moscow the Estonian-Russian patriarch (b. 1929) died on this day in 2008. As did Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu the Romanian politician (b. 1928) , Nina Foch the Dutch-American actress (b. 1924) , Anca Parghel the Romanian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1957) .