August 24, 2009 | BirthdayAnswers

Learn interesting facts about Monday, August 24, 2009 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

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You’ve taken nearly 108,158,400 breaths and experienced over 618,048,000 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 131,335,200 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 14 years, 8 months, and 9 days

📅 You were born on a Monday

🌒 The moon was in Waxing phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Generation Z

🐂 Born in → The Year of the Ox

😴 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: 1,788 days of your life or 4.9 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Avatar

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas (source: Billboard Hot 100)

The number 1 DJ in the world was Armin van Buuren followed by Tiësto and David Guetta according to DJ Mag.

♍ August 24 zodiac sign is Virgo ?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 7 ?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 Mercury ☿

🪨 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 → Wednesday

🦅 Your spirit animal → Bear

⭐ Celebrities born on August 24th

1949

Joe Regalbuto, American actor (Knots Landing; Murphy Brown - "Frank")

1995

Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model

1961

Jared Harris, Irish-British actor (Valery Legasov-Chernobyl)

1983

Christopher Parker, British actor (Eastenders)

2000

Griffin Gluck, American actor (Locke & Key)

1947

Anne Archer, American actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)

1998

Sofia Richie, American model and social media personality

1990

Elizabeth Debicki, Australian actress (The Great Gatsby; Widows; Tenet)

At the age of 53, Bill Gates was the richest person in the world in 2009 with $40 billion fortune, followed by Warren Buffett with $37 billion, according to Forbes.

📜 Historical events on this date

Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die.

410

Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

1516

Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate.

1572

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces.

1662

Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer.

1814

British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812).

1968

France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.

🎄 Holidays on August 24

Pluto Demoted Day

Pluto Demoted Day, on August 24, marks the day when scientists decided Pluto wasn't a main planet but a smaller "dwarf planet" because it's not the biggest thing in its path around the sun.

National Waffle Day

National Waffle Day, celebrated on August 24th, is a fun holiday where people enjoy all kinds of waffles, from Belgian to Hong Kong style, with toppings like syrup and fruit, or even as sandwiches and hotdog buns.

William Wilberforce Day

William Wilberforce Day celebrates the birthday of William Wilberforce, a British politician who fought to end the slave trade, with various festivities and events held in his honor.

🏆 Sports in 2009

🏒 NHL

Pittsburgh Penguins defeated Detroit Redwings (4 - 3) to win the 2009 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

Pittsburgh Steelers beat Arizona Cardinals (27 - 23) to win Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009 in Tampa Bay, FL.

⚾ MLB

New York Yankeess beat Philadelphia Phillies (4 - 2) to win the 2009 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 2009 US Open Championships, Juan Martin del Potro defeated Roger Federer (3-6, 7-6(7-5), 4-6, 7-6(7-4), 6-2) to win the men's singles title. Kim Clijsters beat Caroline Wozniacki (7-5, 6-3) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

August 24, 2009 can be written as VIII-XXIV-MMIX. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for August 24, 2009
→ Day Index: 236th day of 2009
→ Day of week: Monday
→ Week Index: 4th Monday of 2009
→ Next same calendar year: 2026
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 15 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 7,725,865 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 1,788 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 59 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 4.9 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 182 🌒
→ Life path number: 7
→ Zodiac sign: Virgo ♍
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Mercury
→ Birth flower: Gladiolus
→ Birthstone: Peridot and Sardonyx
→ Spirit Animal: Bear
→ Power Color: Brown
→ President of United States:
→ World population 2009: 6,873,741,054 Source: un.org

The 2009 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2026. So, mark your calendars!

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