10 August 1978: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn cool facts about Thursday, August 10, 1978 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

Your next birthday is in:

14
days

23
hours

37
minutes

3
seconds

You’ve taken nearly 345,784,320 breaths and experienced over 1,975,910,400 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 419,880,960 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 46 years, 11 months, and 16 days

📅 You were born on a Thursday

🌒 The moon was in Waxing phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Generation X

🐎 Born in → The Year of the Horse

😴 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: 5,717 days of your life or 15.66 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Grease

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores (source: Billboard Hot 100)

♌ August 10 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 10th

1940

Michael “Tunes” Antunes, American rock and blues saxophonist (John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band), and actor (Eddie And The Cruisers)

1923

Rhonda Fleming [Marilyn Louis], American actress and singer nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor" (Spellbound)

1918

Joseph Hardy, American character actor (Husbands; The Clock)

1927

Vernon Washington, American actor (Roots, The Last Starfighter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning)

1982

Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress

1919

Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer

1961

Beatrice Alda, American actress (Lisa-Four Seasons), daughter of Alan Alda

1928

Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor (The Blue Lagoon, Crocodile Dundee II)

📜 Historical events on this date

610

In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an.

1497

John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia".

1675

King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.

1846

US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex.

🎄 Holidays on August 10

National Lazy Day

National Lazy Day is a chill-out holiday on August 10th where you're encouraged to take a break and do absolutely nothing for a day, just relax and enjoy some lazy time.

National S'mores Day

National S'mores Day, celebrated on August 10th, is a fun holiday honoring the classic campfire treat of gooey marshmallows and chocolate squished between graham crackers, encouraging everyone to enjoy this sweet snack and even try new twists on the traditional recipe.

National Spoil Your Dog Day

National Spoil Your Dog Day, celebrated on August 10, is a fun day when we go all out to pamper our dogs, showing them extra love with treats and toys, because they always love us unconditionally.

🏆 Sports in 1978

🏒 NHL

Montreal Canadiens defeated Boston Bruins (4 - 2) to win the 1978 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos (27 - 10) to win Super Bowl XII on January 15, 1978 in New Orleans, LA.

⚾ MLB

New York Yankees beat Los Angeles Dodgers (4 - 2) to win the 1978 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 1978 US Open Championships, Jimmy Connors defeated Bjorn Borg (6-4, 6-2, 6-2) to win the men's singles title. Chris Evert beat Pam Shriver (7-5, 6-4) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

August 10, 1978 can be written as VIII-X-MCMLXXVIII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for August 10, 1978
→ Day Index: 222nd day of 1978
→ Day of week: Thursday
→ Week Index: 2nd Thursday of 1978
→ Next same calendar year: 2034
→ Days until next birthday: 14 days
→ Age on next birthday: 47 years old
→ Days since birth: 17152 days
→ You are: 24,698,902 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 5,717 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 188 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 15.66 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 581 🌒
→ 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 1978: 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org

The 1978 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2034. So, mark your calendars!

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