24 August 1988: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

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

Your next birthday is in:

24
days

16
hours

30
minutes

46
seconds

You’ve taken nearly 271,938,240 breaths and experienced over 1,553,932,800 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 330,210,720 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 36 years, 11 months, and 6 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: 4,496 days of your life or 12.32 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

1980

Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress (Punch)

1963

Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director (Death Stranding)

1998

Sofia Richie, American model and social media personality

1995

Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model

1975

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

1949

Joe Regalbuto, American actor (Knots Landing; Murphy Brown - "Frank")

1971

Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor

1984

Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor

📜 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

National Waffle Day

National Waffle Day, celebrated on August 24th, is a fun holiday where people enjoy all kinds of waffles, from Belgian to Hong Kong style, with toppings like syrup and fruit, or even as sandwiches and hotdog buns.

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.

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.

🏆 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: 24 days
→ Age on next birthday: 37 years old
→ Days since birth: 13489 days
→ You are: 19,424,609 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 4,496 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 148 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 12.32 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 457 🌔
→ 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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