15 May 1987: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn cool facts about Friday, May 15, 1987 that no one tells you about.

Your next birthday is in:

11
months

12
days

4
hours

54
minutes

36
seconds

You’ve taken nearly 280,183,680 breaths and experienced over 1,601,049,600 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 340,223,040 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

You have been alive for: 38 years, and 18 days

You were born on a Friday

The moon was in Waning Gibbous phase on this day

Born into → Millennials Generation

Born in → The Year of the Rabbit

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: 4,633 days of your life or 12.69 years.

#1 movie was: Three Men and a Baby

#1 song on your birthday: "With or Without You" by U2 (source: Billboard Hot 100)

May 15 zodiac sign is Taurus ?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 9 ?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 Venus

Your birthstone is Emerald ?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 May is Lily of the valley ?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 → Friday

Your spirit animal → Beaver

Celebrities born on May 15th

1940

Paul Ryan Rudd, American stage and screen actor

1980

Rocky Marquette, American actor

1943

Harve Brosten, American comedy writer (All In The Family, 1975-77)

1974

Ahmet Zappa, American musician, actor (2 Hip 4 TV), novelist, and filmmaker (The Odd Life Of Timothy Green)

1938

Mireille Darc, French actress (Week End, Hurried Man)

1955

Lee Horsley, American actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)

1990

Stella Maxwell, Irish-New Zealand model

1987

Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina actress and singer

Historical events on this date

1252

Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.

1618

German astronomer Johannes Kepler discovers the third of his three planetary laws his "harmonics law".

1869

National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

1940

McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

1951

AT&T becomes the 1st US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases 7 shares worth $1,078.

1988

USSR begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.

Holidays on May 15

National Chocolate Chip Day

National Chocolate Chip Day celebrates the delicious accident of chocolate chips, invented after the chocolate chip cookie itself around 1940, when a baker ran out of regular chocolate and used semi-sweet chocolate instead.

National Safety Dose Day

National Safety Dose Day, observed every May 15th, focuses on teaching people how to safely use prescription medicines to prevent addiction and save lives, highlighting the dangers of opioids which have become a major cause of accidental deaths in the U.S.

Straw Hat Day

Straw Hat Day, celebrated on May 15th, is all about appreciating and wearing straw hats, a timeless accessory that offers both style and protection from the sun.

Sports in 1987

NHL

Edmonton Oilers defeated Philadelphia Flyers (4 - 3) to win the 1987 Stanley Cup.

NFL

New York Giants beat Denver Broncos (39 - 20) to win Super Bowl XXI on January 25, 1987 in Pasadena, CA.

MLB

Minnesota Twins beat St. Louis Cardinals (4 - 3) to win the 1987 World Series.

Tennis

In the 1987 US Open Championships, Ivan Lendl defeated Mats Wilander (6-7(7-9), 6-0, 7-6(7-4), 6-4) to win the men's singles title. Martina Navratilova beat Steffi Graf (7-6(7-4), 6-1) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

May 15, 1987 can be written as V-XV-MCMLXXXVII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

Facts Summary for May 15, 1987
→ Day Index: 135th day of 1987
→ Day of week: Friday
→ Week Index: 3rd Friday of 1987
→ Next same calendar year: 2026
→ Days until next birthday: 346 days
→ Age on next birthday: 39 years old
→ Days since birth: 13898 days
→ You are: 20,013,425 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 4,633 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 152 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 12.69 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 471
→ Life path number: 9
→ Zodiac sign: Taurus
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Venus
→ Birth flower: Lily of the valley
→ Birthstone: Emerald
→ Spirit Animal: Beaver
→ Power Color: Green
→ President of United States:
→ World population 1987: 5,055,636,132 Source: un.org

The 1987 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2026. So, mark your calendars!

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