Date:August 8, 1996

August 8, 1996

August 8, 1996 birthday facts

Learn cool facts about Thursday, August 8, 1996 that no one tells you about. ⬇️


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You’ve taken nearly 204,321,600 breaths and experienced over 1,167,552,000 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 248,104,800 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 27 years, and 9 months


📅 You were born on a Thursday


🌘 The moon was in Waning Crescent 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: 3,378 days of your life or 9.26 years.


🍿 #1 movie was: Independence Day


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


♌ August 8 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 5 ?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 8th

1951
Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director

1957
Dieuwertje Blok, Dutch TV hostess

1973
Senta Moses, American actress

1987
Katie Leung, Scottish actress (Harry Potter love interest)

1976
Tawny Cypress, American stage and screen actress (Unforgettable)

1981
Kaori Iida, Japanese pop singer and actress (Morning Musume; Dream Morning Musume)

1953
Don Most, American actor and director (Ralph Malph-Happy Days)

1938
Connie Stevens [Concetta Ingoglia], American actress (Hawaiian Eye - "Cricket"; Back to the Beach), and singer ("Sixteen Reasons")


📜 Historical events on this date

1509
Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India.

1609
Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope.

1786
US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the money unit for the United States.

1925
1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.

1945
USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.

1974
US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day.

1988
Ceasefire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war.


🎄 Holidays on August 8

National Dollar Day
National Dollar Day, celebrated on August 8, marks the creation of the U.S. monetary system, acknowledging the importance of the dollar which is widely used around the world and had over $2 trillion in circulation as of early 2021.

National Perler Day
National Perler Day, celebrated on August 8th, is a cool holiday where everyone gets to show off their creativity by making awesome designs with tiny, colorful beads that you arrange and then melt together with an iron.

National CBD Day
National CBD Day, celebrated every August 8th, is a day to learn about and appreciate CBD, a substance from hemp plants that can help with things like pain, anxiety, and even moving or thinking better.


🏆 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 8, 1996 can be written as VIII-VIII-MCMXCVI. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.


🔦 Facts Summary for August 8, 1996
Day Index: 221st day of 1996
Day of week: Thursday
Week Index: 2nd Thursday of 1996
Next same calendar year: 2024
Days until next birthday:
Age on next birthday: 28 years old
Days since birth:
You are: 14,594,496 minutes old
Days spent sleeping: 3,378 days
Months spent sleeping: 111 months
Years spent sleeping: 9.26 years
Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
Full moons since birth: 344 🌘
Life path number: 5
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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