January 8, 1979

Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Monday, January 8, 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 › "Too Much Heaven" by The Bee Gees

🐐 Chinese Zodiac › Goat
☀️ Sun Sign › Capricorn
🌎 Zodiac Element › Earth
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Cardinal
🪐 Ruling Planet › Saturn ♄
🐼 Spirit Animal › Goose

🔢 Life Path Number › 8
🌼 Birth flower › Carnation
🪨 Birthstone › Garnet
📅 Lucky day › Saturday
Power Color › Grey

Gas price per gallon › $0.86





🏛️ President of United States
🌎 World population › 4,380,585,755 Source: un.org

⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,780,800,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 409,746,240 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,928,217,600 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,811,984,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 337,438,080 breaths since your birth.

⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on September 16, 2010.


What happened on my birthday

1656
Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands).

1790
1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address.

1835
US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history.

1912
Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organisations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms.

1916
WWI: ANZAC forces withdraw from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople.

1926
Abdulaziz Ibn Saud becomes King of Nejd and Hejaz; forerunner of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.


Famous people with my birthday

1957
Ron Cephas Jones, American Emmy Award-winning actor (This is Us)

1968
Ami Dolenz, American actress (General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love)

1934
Roy Kinnear, English character actor (TW3, Help!, The 3 Musketeers)

1979
Sarah Polley, Canadian filmmaker and actress (Sweet Hereafter, Women Talking)

1942
Yvette Mimieux, American actress (Time Machine; Where the Boys Are; Light in the Piazza)

1917
Stanley Prager, American comedian (College Bowl)

1924
Ron Moody [Moodnick], British composer, singer and actor (The 12 Chairs; Oliver!)

1991
Asuka Hinoi, Japanese J-pop singer, and actress


Holidays on Monday, January 8th

National Man Watcher's Day
National Man Watcher's Day, celebrated on January 8th, is a quirky holiday where anyone can have fun watching men go about their daily lives, flipping the usual script of women often being the ones observed.

National Sunday Supper Day
National Sunday Supper Day, celebrated on the second Sunday in January, is about families making time to eat together, aiming to strengthen bonds by bringing back the tradition of shared meals.

National JoyGerm Day
National JoyGerm Day, celebrated every January 8th, is a day dedicated to spreading joy, optimism, and love, much like germs, but in a good way, to make everyone around us happier.

Show And Tell At Work Day
"Show and Tell At Work Day is like taking your favorite kindergarten activity to the office, letting adults share cool stuff with coworkers to bring back the fun of being a kid."

National Winter Skin Relief Day
National Winter Skin Relief Day, celebrated on January 8th, is a day to remember to take extra care of our skin during the cold winter months, because our skin can get really dry and needs more attention to stay healthy.

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