5 July 1996: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn interesting facts about Friday, July 5, 1996 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

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You’ve taken nearly 216,861,120 breaths and experienced over 1,239,206,400 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 263,331,360 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 29 years, 5 months, and 12 days

📅 You were born on a Friday

🌖 The moon was in Waning Gibbous 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: 3,586 days of your life or 9.82 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Independence Day

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (source: Billboard Hot 100)

♋ July 5 zodiac sign is Cancer ?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 1 ?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 Moon ☽

🪨 Your birthstone is Ruby ?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 July is Larkspur ?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 → Monday

🦅 Your spirit animal → Woodpecker

⭐ Celebrities born on July 5th

1928

Warren Oates, American actor (Dillinger, East of Eden, Stoney Burke)

1904

Don Goddard, American news anchor (ABC Evening News 1958-59)

1932

Billy Laughlin, American child actor (Froggy- Our Gang)

1968

Kenji Ito, Japanese video game composer

1949

Marilyn Cole, English Playmate model (Jan, 1972, Playmate of the Year 1973)

1985

Stephanie McIntosh, Australian pop singer and actress

1927

Beverly Tyler, American singer and actress (Fireball, The Youngest Profession, Big Town)

1936

Shirley Knight, American actress (Endless Love, Desperate Housewives)

📜 Historical events on this date

1687

Isaac Newton's great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation.

1811

Venezuelan Declaration of Independence: 7 provinces declare themselves independent of Spain.

1852

Frederick Douglass, fugitive slave, delivers his'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, condemns the celebration as hypocritical sham.

1865

US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department.

1994

Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos.

2004

First Indonesian presidential election by the people - first round (eventually won by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono).

🎄 Holidays on July 5

National Apple Turnover Day

National Apple Turnover Day, celebrated on July 5, is a day to enjoy the sweet and spicy taste of apple turnovers, a portable version of pie that's easy to make and perfect for apple lovers on the go.

National Hawaii Day

National Hawaii Day is a celebration on July 5th that honors Hawaii's unique history and culture, despite the actual date of Hawaii becoming the 50th U.S. state being August 21, 1959, making it one of the four U.S. states that were once their own countries.

National Graham Crackers Day

National Graham Crackers Day on July 5 celebrates the versatile cracker invented for health reasons, now popular in s'mores and as a base for desserts.

🏆 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.

July 5, 1996 can be written as VII-V-MCMXCVI. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for July 5, 1996
→ Day Index: 187th day of 1996
→ Day of week: Friday
→ Week Index: 1st Friday of 1996
→ Next same calendar year: 2052
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 30 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 15,491,196 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 3,586 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 118 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 9.82 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 365 🌖
→ Life path number: 1
→ Zodiac sign: Cancer ♋
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Moon
→ Birth flower: Larkspur
→ Birthstone: Ruby
→ Spirit Animal: Woodpecker
→ Power Color: Silver
→ 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 2052. So, mark your calendars!

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