Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Monday, August 20, 1979:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Thursday
🎂 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 › "My Sharona" by The Knack
🐐 Chinese Zodiac › Goat
☀️ Sun Sign › Leo
🔥 Zodiac Element › Fire
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Fixed
🪐 Ruling Planet › Sun ☉
🐼 Spirit Animal › Salmon
🔢 Life Path Number › 9
🌼 Birth flower › Gladiolus
🪨 Birthstone › Peridot and Sardonyx
📅 Lucky day › Sunday ⬤Power Color › Orange
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.86
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,380,585,755 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,499,200,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 405,437,760 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,907,942,400 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,782,416,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 333,889,920 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on April 28, 2011.
What happened on my birthday
1597
1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East.
1619
1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude.
1741
Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition.
1866
President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over.
1905
Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
1968
During the night 200,000 Warsaw Pact Soviet led troops invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring.
1993
Oslo Peace Accords signed, after secret negotiations in Norway, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
Famous people with my birthday
1954
Al Roker, American weatherman (NBC, Today)
1990
Öykü Karayel, Turkish actress (Kuzey Güney)
1995
Liana Liberato, American actress (Light as a Feather)
1956
Joan Allen, American actress (Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker, In Country)
1981
Ben Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian-The Chronicles of Narnia)
1969
Duke Droese, American professional wrestler
1987
Zakir Khan, Indian comedian (On Air with AIB)
1955
Jay Acovone, American actor (Det Rado-Hollywood Beat)
Holidays on Monday, August 20th
National Radio Day
National Radio Day, celebrated on August 20, is a day to appreciate how radio revolutionized communication by sharing news, music, and more, making the world feel more connected, even though we now often use the internet and TV for those purposes.
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day, celebrated on August 20th, is a fun holiday where we bake or eat this delicious dessert that combines the rich flavors of chocolate and pecans, ingredients enjoyed for thousands of years.
