Date:October 18, 1988

October 18, 1988

October 10, 1988 birthday facts

Learn interesting facts about Tuesday, October 18, 1988 that no one tells you about. ⬇️


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You’ve taken nearly 261,676,800 breaths and experienced over 1,495,296,000 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 317,750,400 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 35 years, 6 months, and 15 days


📅 You were born on a Tuesday


🌓 The moon was in First Quarter phase on this day


⌛ Born into → Millennials Generation


🐉 Born in → The Year of the Dragon


😴 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: 4,327 days of your life or 11.85 years.


🍿 #1 movie was: Rain Man


🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Groovy Kind of Love" by Phil Collins (source: Billboard Hot 100)


♎ October 18 zodiac sign is Libra ?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 9 ?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 Venus


🪨 Your birthstone is Opal and Tourmaline ?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 October is Marigold ?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 → Friday


🦅 Your spirit animal → Raven


Celebrities born on October 18th

1915
Victor Sen Yung [Cheung Young], American actor (Across the Pacific, Charlie Chan in Honolulu)

1966
Angela Visser, Dutch actress, model and Miss Universe 1989

1987
Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model

1978
Wesley Jonathan, American actor

1901
Barbara Brown, American actress

1968
Rhod Gilbert, Welsh comedian (Never Mind the Buzzcocks)

1920
Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, activist and politician

1918
Robert "Bobby" Troup, American jazz pianist and actor (Emergency; Acapulco)


📜 Historical events on this date

1009
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.

1685
French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants.

1867
US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia having paid $7.2 million.

1931
American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion.

1962
James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK) and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA.


🎄 Holidays on October 18

National Chocolate Cupcake Day
National Chocolate Cupcake Day, celebrated every year on October 18, is a fun holiday where people all over the world enjoy chocolate cupcakes, a delicious treat that has been loved since it first appeared in a 1796 cookbook.

National Mashed Potato Day
National Mashed Potato Day, celebrated on October 18th in the United States, is a fun holiday for potato lovers to indulge in their favorite dish, with its origins a bit of a mystery, though some believe the Idaho Potato Commission started it to honor the beloved spud.

Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity
The Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity is a day when people choose to be silent for a day to honor and remember babies who were not born because of abortion.


🏆 Sports in 1988

🏒 NHL
Edmonton Oilers defeated Boston Bruins (4 - 0) to win the 1988 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL
Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos (42 - 10) to win Super Bowl XXII on January 31, 1988 in San Diego, CA.

⚾ MLB
Los Angeles Dodgers beat Oakland Athletics (4 - 1) to win the 1988 World Series.

🎾 Tennis
In the 1988 US Open Championships, Mats Wilander defeated Ivan Lendl (6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4) to win the men's singles title. Steffi Graf beat Gabriela Sabatini (6-3, 3-6, 6-1) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

October 18, 1988 can be written as X-XVIII-MCMLXXXVIII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.


🔦 Facts Summary for October 18, 1988
Day Index: 292nd day of 1988
Day of week: Tuesday
Week Index: 3rd Tuesday of 1988
Next same calendar year: 2044
Days until next birthday:
Age on next birthday: 36 years old
Days since birth:
You are: 18,691,518 minutes old
Days spent sleeping: 4,327 days
Months spent sleeping: 142 months
Years spent sleeping: 11.85 years
Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
Full moons since birth: 440 🌓
Life path number: 9
Zodiac sign: Libra ♎
Zodiac ruling planet: Venus
Birth flower: Marigold
Birthstone: Opal and Tourmaline
Spirit Animal: Raven
Power Color: Pink
President of United States:
World population 1988: 5,148,556,956 Source: un.org

The 1988 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2044. So, mark your calendars!

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