24 August 1988: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn interesting facts about Wednesday, August 24, 1988 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

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You’ve taken nearly 267,482,880 breaths and experienced over 1,528,473,600 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 324,800,640 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 36 years, 3 months, and 28 days

📅 You were born on a Wednesday

🌔 The moon was in Waxing 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: 4,423 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 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 4 ?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

1983

Christopher Parker, British actor (Eastenders)

2000

Griffin Gluck, American actor (Locke & Key)

1980

Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress (Punch)

1971

Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor

1945

Ronee Blakley, American actress (Nashville), and singer-songwriter

1961

Jared Harris, Irish-British actor (Valery Legasov-Chernobyl)

1995

Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model

1975

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

📜 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

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.

National SKAM Artist Day

National SKAM Artist Day, celebrated on August 24th, honors Sujit Kundu, the founder of SKAM Artist, a DJ management company with famous DJs, marking his contributions to the entertainment industry.

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.

🏆 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 24, 1988 can be written as VIII-XXIV-MCMLXXXVIII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for August 24, 1988
→ Day Index: 237th day of 1988
→ Day of week: Wednesday
→ Week Index: 4th Wednesday of 1988
→ Next same calendar year: 2044
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 37 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 19,106,346 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 4,423 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: 4
→ 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 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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