24 October 2004: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn cool facts about Sunday, October 24, 2004 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

Your next birthday is in:

You’ve taken nearly 148,095,360 breaths and experienced over 846,259,200 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 179,830,080 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 20 years, 1 month, and 11 days

📅 You were born on a Sunday

🌔 The moon was in Waxing Gibbous phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Generation Z

🐒 Born in → The Year of the Monkey

😴 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: 2,449 days of your life or 6.71 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Shrek 2

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "My Boo" by Usher and Alicia Keys (source: Billboard Hot 100)

The number 1 DJ in the world was Tiësto followed by Paul van Dyk and Armin van Buuren according to DJ Mag.

♏ October 24 zodiac sign is Scorpio ?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 Pluto ♇

🪨 Your birthstone is Opal and Tourmaline ?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 October is Marigold ?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 → Tuesday

🦅 Your spirit animal → Snake

⭐ Celebrities born on October 24th

1948

Dale "Buffin" Griffin, English rock drummer (Mott The Hoople - "All Young Dudes"), and producer (BBC's John Peel sessions)

1972

Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress (This Charming Girl)

1984

Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer (Rirura Riruha)

1971

Dervla Kirwan, Irish TV and stage actress

1915

Bob Kane, American comic artist and Batman co-creator

1995

Ashton Sanders. American actor (Moonlight)

1981

Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress (Murder)

1957

(Elizabeth) Sarah Greene, British television presenter and actress (Blue Peter, 1980-83; Going Live!)

At the age of 48, Bill Gates was the richest person in the world in 2004 with $46.6 billion fortune, followed by Warren Buffett with $42.9 billion, according to Forbes.

📜 Historical events on this date

1260

Qutuz, Mamluk Sultans of Egypt (1259-60), is assassinated by Baibars, a fellow Mamluk leader, who seizes power for himself.

1648

Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Year's War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland's independence recognized.

1929

Black Thursday, start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%.

1962

Cuban missile crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba.

2008

Bloody Friday saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

🎄 Holidays on October 24

National Food Day

National Food Day is a day to celebrate healthy eating and learn about good farming and safe food making, reminding us to eat well and take care of the planet.

National Bologna Day

National Bologna Day, celebrated on October 24, is a fun holiday where people enjoy bologna, a popular lunch meat, in their sandwiches, paying homage to a food named after an Italian city but loved globally in its uniquely American form.

National Jamaican Jerk Day

National Jamaican Jerk Day, celebrated on October 24th, is a fun holiday where people enjoy and honor the unique flavors of Jamaican jerk cuisine, along with celebrating Jamaican culture, music, dancing, and bringing communities together.

🏆 Sports in 2004

🏒 NHL

Tampa Bay Lightning defeated Calgary Flames (4 - 3) to win the 2004 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

New England Patriots beat Carolina Panthers (32 - 29) to win Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004 in Houston, TX.

⚾ MLB

Boston Red Sox beat St. Louis Cardinals (4 - 0) to win the 2004 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 2004 US Open Championships, Roger Federer defeated Lleyton Hewitt (6-0, 7-6(7-3), 6-0) to win the men's singles title. Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Elena Dementieva (6-3, 7-5) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

October 24, 2004 can be written as X-XXIV-MMIV. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for October 24, 2004
→ Day Index: 298th day of 2004
→ Day of week: Sunday
→ Week Index: 4th Sunday of 2004
→ Next same calendar year: 2032
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 21 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 10,579,499 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 2,449 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 80 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 6.71 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 249 🌔
→ Life path number: 4
→ Zodiac sign: Scorpio ♏
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Pluto
→ Birth flower: Marigold
→ Birthstone: Opal and Tourmaline
→ Spirit Animal: Snake
→ Power Color: Black
→ President of United States:
→ World population 2004: 6,461,370,865 Source: un.org

The 2004 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2032. So, mark your calendars!

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