Date:August 6, 1988

August 6, 1988

August 8, 1988 birthday facts

Learn cool facts about Saturday, August 6, 1988 that no one tells you about. ⬇️


Your next birthday is in:
6
months
27
days
22
hours
52
minutes
40
seconds

You’ve taken nearly 268,188,480 breaths and experienced over 1,532,505,600 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 325,657,440 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 36 years, 5 months, and 1 day


📅 You were born on a Saturday


🌗 The moon was in Last 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: 4,434 days of your life or 12.15 years.


🍿 #1 movie was: Rain Man


🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Roll With It" by Steve Winwood (source: Billboard Hot 100)


♌ August 6 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 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 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 6th

1938
Bernardino Lombao, Spanish handballer (Atlético de Madrid 1967-69), coach (Nat basketball teams) and TV presenter (De Olimpia a Los Ángeles, Objetivo 92)

1980
Wilber Pan, Taiwanese-American singer, rapper and actor

1940
Louise Sorel, actress (BS I Love You, Crimes of Passion)

1930
Abbey Lincoln [Anna Wooldridge], American jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress (Nothing But a Man), and civil rights activist

1917
Robert Mitchum, American actor (Out of the Past, Winds of War, North & South)

1951
Catherine Hicks, American actress (Star Trek IV, Child's Play)

1923
John "Jackie" Kelk, American actor and stand-up comedian (The Aldrich Family;, The Adventures of Superman)

1920
Ella Raines, American actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact, Brute Force)


📜 Historical events on this date

1661
The Treaty of The Hague is signed whereby the Dutch Republic sells New Holland (Brazil) for 63 tonnes of gold to Portugal.

1890
At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes first person to be executed by electric chair.

1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay".

1965
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities.

1991
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.


🎄 Holidays on August 6

National Root Beer Float Day
National Root Beer Float Day, celebrated on August 6th, is a day dedicated to enjoying the unique combination of root beer and ice cream, inspired by a creative idea from 1893 Colorado.

National Friendship Day
National Friendship Day is a special day to celebrate and appreciate your friends, both new and old, for always being there for you through thick and thin.

Balloons to Heaven Day
Balloons to Heaven Day, observed on August 6th, is a day where people release balloons into the sky to remember and honor those who have lost their lives to gun violence, bringing families together in their grief and promoting efforts to prevent such violence in the future.


🏆 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 6, 1988 can be written as VIII-VI-MCMLXXXVIII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.


🔦 Facts Summary for August 6, 1988
Day Index: 219th day of 1988
Day of week: Saturday
Week Index: 1st Saturday of 1988
Next same calendar year: 2044
Days until next birthday: 210 days
Age on next birthday: 37 years old
Days since birth: 13303 days
You are: 19,157,047 minutes old
Days spent sleeping: 4,434 days
Months spent sleeping: 146 months
Years spent sleeping: 12.15 years
Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
Full moons since birth: 451 🌗
Life path number: 4
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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