Date:August 17, 2018

August 17, 2018

August 8, 2018 birthday facts

Learn cool facts about Friday, August 17, 2018 that no one tells you about. ⬇️


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You’ve taken nearly 42,033,600 breaths and experienced over 240,192,000 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 51,040,800 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 5 years, 8 months, and 16 days


📅 You were born on a Friday


🌒 The moon was in Waxing phase on this day


⌛ Born into → Generation Alpha


🐕 Born in → The Year of the Dog


😴 You’ve slept about 33% of your life! ?💤 Assuming you’ve been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth. Here is how much time you’ve spent sleeping so far: 695 days of your life or 1.9 years.


🍿 #1 movie was: Black Panther


🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "In My Feelings" by Drake (source: Billboard Hot 100)


The number 1 DJ in the world was Martin Garrix followed by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and Hardwell according to DJ Mag.

♌ August 17 zodiac sign is Leo ?There are 12 zodiac signs, and each sign has its own strengths and weaknesses, its own specific traits, desires and attitude towards life and people. Astrology can give us a glimpse of a person’s basic characteristics, preferences, flaws and fears.


🔢 Your life path number is 9 ?Numerology links numbers to certain traits, much like how astrology connects planets and zodiac signs to characteristics. It’s used to understand personality, predict future happenings, and explore life’s meaning.


🪐 Your ruling planet is Sun


🪨 Your birthstone is Peridot and Sardonyx ?Each month is represented by a specific birthstone, symbolizing the birth month of an individual. The properties associated with that birthstone are believed to be “inherited” by the person born in that particular month.


🌷 The birth flower for August is Gladiolus ?Each month has a flower that symbolizes the month of somebody’s birth. The characteristics that the flower has may be “inherited” by whoever is born in that certain month person.


📅 Your lucky day → Sunday


🦅 Your spirit animal → Salmon


Celebrities born on August 17th

1960
Bruce Penhall, American actor (Savage Beach)

1935
Oleg Tabakov, Soviet-Russian actor and artistic director (Moscow Art Theatre)

1988
Brady Corbet, American actor (24)

1939
Anthony Valentine, British actor (Colditz)

1888
Monty Wooley, American actor (Pied Piper, The Man Who Came to Dinner)

1951
Robert Joy, Canadian actor (Big Shots, CSI)

1962
Buddy Landel 'Nature Boy', American professional wrestler

1990
Colin Bates, American-British actor, dancer, and singer (Billy Elliot - The Musical)

At the age of 54, Jeff Bezos was the richest person in the world in 2018 with $112 billion fortune, followed by Bill Gates with $90 billion, according to Forbes.

📜 Historical events on this date

1590
Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591].

1903
Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America.

1945
Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands.

1945
Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.

1947
The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.

1998
Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship.


🎄 Holidays on August 17

National I LOVE My feet Day
National I Love My Feet Day, celebrated every August 17, is a day to appreciate and take care of our feet for all the hard work they do in supporting our body, helping us balance, and carrying us through life.

National Black Cat Appreciation Day
National Black Cat Appreciation Day, celebrated on August 17, is a day to show love and appreciation for black cats, aiming to break the stereotypes and increase their adoption, since they are often overlooked despite being just as wonderful as other cats.

National Workers' Comp Adjuster Day
National Workers' Comp Adjuster Day, celebrated on August 17, is a special day to appreciate the hardworking people who help workers get the support and compensation they need when they're injured on the job.


🏆 Sports in 2018

🏒 NHL
Washington Capitals defeated Las Vegas Golden Knights (4 - 1) to win the 2018 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL
Philadelphia Eagles beat New England Patriots (41 - 33) to win Super Bowl LII on February 4, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN.

⚾ MLB
Boston Red Sox beat Los Angeles Dodgers (4 - 3) to win the 2018 World Series.

🎾 Tennis
In the 2018 US Open Championships, Novak Djokovic defeated Juan Martin del Potro (6-3, 7-6(7-4), 6-3) to win the men's singles title. Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams (6-2, 6-4) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

August 17, 2018 can be written as VIII-XVII-MMXVIII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.


🔦 Facts Summary for August 17, 2018
Day Index: 229th day of 2018
Day of week: Friday
Week Index: 3rd Friday of 2018
Next same calendar year: 2029
Days until next birthday:
Age on next birthday: 6 years old
Days since birth:
You are: 3,002,644 minutes old
Days spent sleeping: 695 days
Months spent sleeping: 23 months
Years spent sleeping: 1.9 years
Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
Full moons since birth: 71 🌒
Life path number: 9
Zodiac sign: Leo ♌
Zodiac ruling planet: Sun
Birth flower: Gladiolus
Birthstone: Peridot and Sardonyx
Spirit Animal: Salmon
Power Color: Orange
President of United States:
World population 2018: 7,632,819,325 Source: un.org

The 2018 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2029. So, mark your calendars!

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