Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Thursday, March 8, 1979:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Sunday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Kramer vs. Kramer
🎮 Number one video game › Asteroids
🎵 Number one song › "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor
🐐 Chinese Zodiac › Goat
☀️ Sun Sign › Pisces
🌊 Zodiac Element › Water
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Mutable
🪐 Ruling Planet › Neptune ♆
🐼 Spirit Animal › Wolf
🔢 Life Path Number › 1
🌼 Birth flower › Daffodil
🪨 Birthstone › Aquamarine
📅 Lucky day › Thursday ⬤Power Color › Light Green
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.86
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,380,585,755 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,750,400,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 409,281,120 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,926,028,800 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,808,792,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 337,055,040 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on November 14, 2010.
What happened on my birthday
1531
Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury.
1817
The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1867
British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada's constitution for more than 100 years.
1917
Russian "February Revolution" begins in earnest with protests celebrating International Woman's Day and riots in St Petersburg over food rations and conduct of the war [OS=Feb 23].
1948
US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional.
1973
The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country.
2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history.
Ousmane Sembène, Senegalese author and director (Doctor Noir)
1936
Sue Ane Langdon, actress (Bachelor Father, Arnie)
Holidays on Thursday, March 8th
International Women's Day
International Women's Day, celebrated on March 8, honors women's achievements and promotes gender equality worldwide, encouraging support for women's opportunities and rights.
National Peanut Cluster Day
National Peanut Cluster Day, celebrated on March 8th, is all about enjoying and making peanut clusters, a tasty treat that combines the crunchiness of peanuts with the sweetness of chocolate.
Fill Our Staplers Day
Fill Our Staplers Day is a quirky holiday created by the Dull Men's Club to remind everyone to refill their staplers, ensuring a smoother and more efficient workplace.
National Proofreading Day
National Proofreading Day, celebrated every March 8th, is a day to focus on catching and fixing errors in our writing to make it perfect, and to appreciate those who help us do it.
National Retro Video Game Day
National Retro Video Game Day, celebrated every March 8th, is a fun holiday where people remember and play old-school video games from before modern consoles like Xbox and PlayStation, celebrating how far video games have come from simple classics like Mario and Pac-Man to today's advanced games.
