24 August 1985: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn interesting facts about Saturday, August 24, 1985 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

Your next birthday is in:

12
days

12
hours

38
minutes

17
seconds

You’ve taken nearly 294,275,520 breaths and experienced over 1,681,574,400 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 357,334,560 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 39 years, 11 months, and 18 days

📅 You were born on a Saturday

🌓 The moon was in First Quarter phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Millennials Generation

🐂 Born in → The Year of the Ox

😴 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: 4,866 days of your life or 13.33 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Back to the Future

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and The News (source: Billboard Hot 100)

♍ August 24 zodiac sign is Virgo ?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 Mercury ☿

🪨 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 → Wednesday

🦅 Your spirit animal → Bear

⭐ Celebrities born on August 24th

1960

Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker (Dead or Alive)

1973

Barret Oliver, American actor (The Neverending Story; The Secret Garden)

1998

Sofia Richie, American model and social media personality

1984

Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor

1968

Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler

1995

Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model

1975

[Simon] James D'Arcy, English actor (Agent Carter; Dunkirk)

1964

Dana Gould, American comedian, actor, and writer (The Simpsons, 2001-07)

📜 Historical events on this date

Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die.

410

Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

1516

Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate.

1572

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces.

1662

Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer.

1814

British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812).

1968

France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.

🎄 Holidays on August 24

Pluto Demoted Day

Pluto Demoted Day, on August 24, marks the day when scientists decided Pluto wasn't a main planet but a smaller "dwarf planet" because it's not the biggest thing in its path around the sun.

Vesuvius Day

Vesuvius Day is observed every August 24th to remember the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and took many lives.

William Wilberforce Day

William Wilberforce Day celebrates the birthday of William Wilberforce, a British politician who fought to end the slave trade, with various festivities and events held in his honor.

🏆 Sports in 1985

🏒 NHL

Edmonton Oilers defeated Philadelphia Fyers (4 - 1) to win the 1985 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

San Francisco 49ers beat Miami Dolphins (38 - 16) to win Super Bowl XIX on January 20, 1985 in Stanford, CA.

⚾ MLB

Kansas City Royals beat St. Cardinals Louis (4 - 3) to win the 1985 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 1985 US Open Championships, Ivan Lendl defeated John McEnroe (7-6(7-1), 6-3, 6-4) to win the men's singles title. Hana Mandlikova beat Martina Navratilova (7-6(7-3), 1-6, 7-6(7-2)) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

August 24, 1985 can be written as VIII-XXIV-MCMLXXXV. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for August 24, 1985
→ Day Index: 236th day of 1985
→ Day of week: Saturday
→ Week Index: 4th Saturday of 1985
→ Next same calendar year: 2030
→ Days until next birthday: 12 days
→ Age on next birthday: 40 years old
→ Days since birth: 14597 days
→ You are: 21,020,361 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 4,866 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 160 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 13.33 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 495 🌓
→ Life path number: 1
→ Zodiac sign: Virgo ♍
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Mercury
→ Birth flower: Gladiolus
→ Birthstone: Peridot and Sardonyx
→ Spirit Animal: Bear
→ Power Color: Brown
→ President of United States:
→ World population 1985: 4,873,781,796 Source: un.org

The 1985 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2030. So, mark your calendars!

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