Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Saturday, July 8, 1978:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Tuesday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Grease
🎮 Number one video game › Space Invaders
🎵 Number one song › "Shadow Dancing" by Andy Gibb
🐎 Chinese Zodiac › Horse
☀️ Sun Sign › Cancer
🌊 Zodiac Element › Water
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Cardinal
🪐 Ruling Planet › Moon ☽
🐼 Spirit Animal › Woodpecker
🔢 Life Path Number › 4
🌼 Birth flower › Larkspur
🪨 Birthstone › Ruby
📅 Lucky day › Monday ⬤Power Color › Silver
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.63
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,766,400,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 409,525,920 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,927,180,800 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,810,472,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 337,256,640 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on March 16, 2010.
What happened on my birthday
1099
First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1497
Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage, becoming the 1st European to reach India by sea.
1777
Vermont introduces new constitution making it the 1st US state to abolish slavery.
1800
Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox.
1853
Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade.
1948
500th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated in Moscow.
Famous people with my birthday
1917
Faye Emerson, American actress (I've Got a Secret)
1969
Lori Hallier, Canadian actress (Shannon-Santa Barbara)
1918
Craig Stevens [Gail Shikles Jr.], American actor (Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn)
1935
Steve Lawrence [Sidney Leibowitz], American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop singer ("Go Away Little Girl"; Steve and Eydie), and actor (The Lonely Guy; The Blues Brothers)
1981
Lance Gross, American actor (The Paynes)
1955
Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress
1967
Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
1974
Tami Erin, American actress and model (The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking)
Holidays on Saturday, July 8th
National Ice Cream Sundae Day
National Ice Cream Sundae Day, celebrated every July 8th, is a fun day where people across the U.S. enjoy their favorite ice cream sundaes, topped with delicious syrups and various toppings like fruits and nuts.
Be a Kid Again Day
Be a Kid Again Day, on July 8, is a fun holiday where everyone gets to act like a kid again, forgetting all adult worries and just having a blast like when they were younger.
National Freezer Pop Day
National Freezer Pop Day, celebrated on July 8th, is a fun holiday where we remember and enjoy eating those delicious, icy popsicles that cool us down and bring back sweet summer memories.
Math 2.0 Day
Math 2.0 Day, celebrated on July 8, is all about how math and technology team up to create cool stuff and make our lives easier, from video games to smartphones.
National Chocolate with Almonds Day
National Chocolate with Almonds Day, celebrated every July 8th, is a special day dedicated to enjoying the delicious combination of chocolate and almonds, which besides being tasty, also offers some benefits for heart health.
