Date:August 18, 1996

August 18, 1996

August 8, 1996 birthday facts

Learn must-know facts about Sunday, August 18, 1996 that no one tells you about. ⬇️


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You’ve taken nearly 203,999,040 breaths and experienced over 1,165,708,800 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 247,713,120 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 27 years, 8 months, and 15 days


📅 You were born on a Sunday


🌒 The moon was in Waxing phase on this day


⌛ Born into → Millennials Generation


🐀 Born in → The Year of the Rat


😴 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: 3,373 days of your life or 9.24 years.


🍿 #1 movie was: Independence Day


🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" by Los Del Rio (source: Billboard Hot 100)


♌ August 18 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 6 ?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 18th

2003
Max Charles, American actor (The Amazing Spider-Man; The Neighbors)

1931
Grant Williams, American actor (Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man)

1980
Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress

1939
Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor and comedian

1950
Candice Earley, American actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)

1964
Craig Bierko, American actor

1971
Jacob Vargas, American actor (Mi vida loca)

1922
Alain Robbe-Grillet, French novelist (Voyeur) and film maker


📜 Historical events on this date

1737
First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris.

1838
United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica.

1914
US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality".

1919
Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois.

1920
22 year old representative Harry T. Burn is deciding vote in Tennessee's and thus America's ratification of the 19th Amendment to the constitution allowing women's suffrage after letter from his mother.

1940
Battle of Britain -'The hardest day" Luftwaffe lose 69 aircraft, the RAF 68 in largest ever air battle.


🎄 Holidays on August 18

National Men's Grooming Day
National Men's Grooming Day, celebrated every third Friday of August, encourages men to take extra care of their personal hygiene and grooming habits, reminding them that it's important to use the right products for their skin and hair, not just whatever's handy.

National Ice Cream Pie Day
National Ice Cream Pie Day, celebrated on August 18th, is a fun holiday where we enjoy and appreciate the deliciousness of ice cream pies, combining creamy ice cream with various crusts and flavors to create an over-the-top dessert.

Kool Aid Day
Kool Aid Day in Hastings, Nebraska, is a colorful and fun-filled festival celebrating the iconic drink with contests, parades, and even boat racing, happening every second weekend of August.


🏆 Sports in 1996

🏒 NHL
Colorado Avalanche defeated Florida Panthers (4 - 0) to win the 1996 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL
Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers (27 - 17) to win Super Bowl XXX on January 28, 1996 in Tempe, AZ.

⚾ MLB
New York Yankees beat Atlanta Braves (4 - 2) to win the 1996 World Series.

🎾 Tennis
In the 1996 US Open Championships, Pete Sampras defeated Michael Chang (6-1, 6-4, 7-6(7-3)) to win the men's singles title. Steffi Graf beat Monica Seles (7-5, 6-4) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

August 18, 1996 can be written as VIII-XVIII-MCMXCVI. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.


🔦 Facts Summary for August 18, 1996
Day Index: 231st day of 1996
Day of week: Sunday
Week Index: 3rd Sunday of 1996
Next same calendar year: 2024
Days until next birthday:
Age on next birthday: 28 years old
Days since birth:
You are: 14,571,593 minutes old
Days spent sleeping: 3,373 days
Months spent sleeping: 111 months
Years spent sleeping: 9.24 years
Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
Full moons since birth: 343 🌒
Life path number: 6
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 1996: 5,831,565,020 Source: un.org

The 1996 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2024. So, mark your calendars!

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