1 August 1996: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn cool facts about Thursday, August 1, 1996 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

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You’ve taken nearly 209,139,840 breaths and experienced over 1,195,084,800 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 253,955,520 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 28 years, 4 months, and 25 days

📅 You were born on a Thursday

🌖 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: 3,458 days of your life or 9.47 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Independence Day

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" by Los Del Rio (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 7 ?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)

1947

Rick Anderson, American actor and rock bassist (Tubes - "I'll Talk To You Later")

1973

Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor (Open Your Eyes)

1952

Brian Patrick Clarke, American actor (Eight Is Enough - "Merle")

1979

Honeysuckle Weeks, Welsh actress (Foyle's War)

1984

Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress (Hit the Floor)

1949

Nigel Finch, English TV director and film-maker

1969

David Wain, American actor and director (Wet Hot American Summer)

📜 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

Homemade Pie Day

Homemade Pie Day, celebrated every year on August 1, is a fun holiday where people make and enjoy pies of all kinds, celebrating a tradition that stretches back to ancient times and has become a tasty part of cultures around the world, especially in America.

Play Ball Day

Play Ball Day, celebrated every August 1st, is a fun day created by Major League Baseball and USA Baseball to get kids excited about playing baseball and softball through cool games and activities, helping them learn new skills and maybe even spark a love for a future in sports.

DOGust 1st: Universal Birthday for Shelter Dogs

DOGust 1st is a special day chosen to celebrate the birthday of all shelter dogs, aiming to raise awareness and encourage their adoption.

🏆 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 1, 1996 can be written as VIII-I-MCMXCVI. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for August 1, 1996
→ Day Index: 214th day of 1996
→ Day of week: Thursday
→ Week Index: 1st Thursday of 1996
→ Next same calendar year: 2024
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 29 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 14,939,525 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 3,458 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 113 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 9.47 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 352 🌖
→ Life path number: 7
→ 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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