Date:August 21, 1988

August 21, 1988

August 8, 1988 birthday facts

Learn must-know facts about Sunday, August 21, 1988 that no one tells you about. ⬇️


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You’ve taken nearly 267,543,360 breaths and experienced over 1,528,819,200 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 324,874,080 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

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


📅 You were born on a Sunday


🌓 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: 4,424 days of your life or 12.12 years.


🍿 #1 movie was: Rain Man


🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Monkey" by George Michael (source: Billboard Hot 100)


♌ August 21 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 1 ?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 21st

1988
Paris Bennett, American singer and finalist on American Idol (season 5)

1963
Melvin Douglas, American freestyle wrestler (World C'ship gold 90kg 1993, silver 82kg 1989, bronze 90kg 1994, 96)

1996
Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress

1933
Barry Norman, British film critic (Film Greats)

1990
Bo Burnham, American comedian, singer and filmmaker (All Eyes on Me)

1945
Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (The Hunt For Red October)

1968
Barbara Ann Moore, American actress, Playboy playmate (Dec, 1992) and ballroom dancer

1941
Howard Lew Lewis, English comedian and actor (Maid Marian and Her Merry Men and Brush Strokes)


📜 Historical events on this date

1192
Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192).

1703
The Edirne Event: Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II, lessening the power of the sultans.

1772
King Gustav III of Sweden completes coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot - ends 50 years of parliamentary rule.

1888
American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine.

1911
Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913).

1959
Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.

1991
Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days.


🎄 Holidays on August 21

Internet Self-Care Day
Internet Self-Care Day, celebrated on August 21st, encourages everyone to use the internet to find ways to take better care of themselves, reminding us it's important to look after our own health and well-being too.

National Spumoni Day
National Spumoni Day, celebrated on August 21, honors a layered Italian ice cream made with fruits, nuts, and cream, traditionally sliced, not scooped, and now more popular in the US and Argentina than its birthplace, Naples.

National Brazilian Blowout Day
National Brazilian Blowout Day, celebrated every year on August 21, is a day to appreciate a popular hair treatment that keeps your hair smooth and frizz-free all summer.


🏆 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 21, 1988 can be written as VIII-XXI-MCMLXXXVIII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.


🔦 Facts Summary for August 21, 1988
Day Index: 234th day of 1988
Day of week: Sunday
Week Index: 3rd Sunday of 1988
Next same calendar year: 2044
Days until next birthday:
Age on next birthday: 37 years old
Days since birth:
You are: 19,110,690 minutes old
Days spent sleeping: 4,424 days
Months spent sleeping: 145 months
Years spent sleeping: 12.12 years
Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
Full moons since birth: 450 🌓
Life path number: 1
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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