May 23, 1985 | BirthdayAnswers

Learn cool facts about Thursday, May 23, 1985 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

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You’ve taken nearly 286,776,000 breaths and experienced over 1,638,720,000 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 348,228,000 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 38 years, 11 months, and 11 days

📅 You were born on a Thursday

🌒 The moon was in Waxing phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Millennials Generation

🐂 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: 4,742 days of your life or 12.99 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Back to the Future

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Everything She Wants" by Wham! (source: Billboard Hot 100)

♊ May 23 zodiac sign is Gemini ?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 Mercury ☿

🪨 Your birthstone is Emerald ?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 May is Lily of the valley ?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 → Deer

⭐ Celebrities born on May 23rd

1903

Walter Reisch, Austrian-American director and screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)

1950

Linda Thompson, actress (Hee Haw)

1912

John Payne, American actor (The Restless Gun; Miracle on 34th Street)

1956

Buck Showalter, American baseball manager and analyst (ESPN, YES network)

1973

Verna Vasquez, Miss Universe-best swimsuit (Curacao, 1997)

1938

Graham "Johnny" Ball, British TV personality and mathematics educator (Play School)

1987

Bray Wyatt, American pro wrestler (WWE Championship 2017, Smackdown & Raw Tag Team C'ships)

1978

Carolyn Moos, American model and professional basketball player

📜 Historical events on this date

1618

Second Defenestration of Prague: Two Catholic Lords Regent and their secretary are thrown out of a window and amazingly are not seriously injured by the 70 foot (21m) fall. Triggers the Thirty Years' War.

1785

Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.

1813

South American independence leader Simón Bolivar enters Merida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").

1949

Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones.

1958

Mao Zedong starts the "Great Leap Forward" movement in China.

1998

The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.

🎄 Holidays on May 23

National Taffy Day

National Taffy Day, celebrated on May 23, is all about enjoying and appreciating the sweet, chewy candy known as taffy, which became famous as "saltwater taffy" after a candy shop's supply was flooded with ocean water in the 1880s.

National Medical Coder Day

National Medical Coder Day, celebrated every May 23, is a day to appreciate the people who organize and classify health information, making sure doctors and hospitals get paid and helping keep our healthcare system running smoothly.

National Lucky Penny Day

National Lucky Penny Day, celebrated on May 23rd in the United States, is all about hoping to find a penny lying around because it's said to bring you extra good luck if you do!

🏆 Sports in 1985

🏒 NHL

Edmonton Oilers defeated Philadelphia Fyers (4 - 1) to win the 1985 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

San Francisco 49ers beat Miami Dolphins (38 - 16) to win Super Bowl XIX on January 20, 1985 in Stanford, CA.

⚾ MLB

Kansas City Royals beat St. Cardinals Louis (4 - 3) to win the 1985 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 1985 US Open Championships, Ivan Lendl defeated John McEnroe (7-6(7-1), 6-3, 6-4) to win the men's singles title. Hana Mandlikova beat Martina Navratilova (7-6(7-3), 1-6, 7-6(7-2)) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

May 23, 1985 can be written as V-XXIII-MCMLXXXV. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for May 23, 1985
→ Day Index: 143rd day of 1985
→ Day of week: Thursday
→ Week Index: 4th Thursday of 1985
→ Next same calendar year: 2030
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 39 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 20,484,485 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 4,742 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 156 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 12.99 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 482 🌒
→ Life path number: 6
→ Zodiac sign: Gemini ♊
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Mercury
→ Birth flower: Lily of the valley
→ Birthstone: Emerald
→ Spirit Animal: Deer
→ Power Color: Yellow
→ President of United States:
→ World population 1985: 4,873,781,796 Source: un.org

The 1985 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2030. So, mark your calendars!

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