1 August 1988: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn must-know facts about Monday, August 1, 1988 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

Your next birthday is in:

You’ve taken nearly 267,946,560 breaths and experienced over 1,531,123,200 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 325,363,680 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 36 years, 4 months, and 20 days

📅 You were born on a Monday

🌖 The moon was in Waning Gibbous 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: 4,430 days of your life or 12.14 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Rain Man

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Roll With It" by Steve Winwood (source: Billboard Hot 100)

♌ August 1 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 8 ?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 1st

1957

Brad Stephen "Taylor" Negron, American actor and writer (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Easy Money)

1972

D-Von Dudley, American professional wrestler

1961

Mark "Red" Mitchell, American actor (JFK; 8 Seconds; I Want to Live)

1998

Khamani Griffin, American actor (All Of Us, Daddy Day Care)

1963

Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor (A Better Life)

1968

Roshumba Williams, American model (Bride)

1982

Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress

1973

Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor (Open Your Eyes)

📜 Historical events on this date

527

Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.

1086

Results of the Domesday inquiry presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable).

1774

Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state.

1834

Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect.

1958

US atomic submarine USS Nautilus begins 1st transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine".

🎄 Holidays on August 1

World Wide Web Day

World Wide Web Day, celebrated on August 1st, appreciates how the web connects us globally, making communication, information access, and entertainment easier and cheaper than ever before.

Rawgust

Rawgust is a month-long celebration in August where people eat only unprocessed, natural foods to highlight the benefits of such a diet and encourage cutting down on unhealthy, processed foods.

Colorado Day

Colorado Day is a celebration on August 1st every year to remember when Colorado became a state in 1876, after being home to Native American tribes for thousands of years and explored by the Spanish in the late 1500s.

🏆 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.

August 1, 1988 can be written as VIII-I-MCMLXXXVIII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for August 1, 1988
→ Day Index: 214th day of 1988
→ Day of week: Monday
→ Week Index: 1st Monday of 1988
→ Next same calendar year: 2044
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 37 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 19,139,480 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 4,430 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 145 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 12.14 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 451 🌖
→ Life path number: 8
→ 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 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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