Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Wednesday, March 8, 1978:
🕰️ 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 › Grease
🎮 Number one video game › Space Invaders
🎵 Number one song › "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" by Andy Gibb
🐎 Chinese Zodiac › Horse
☀️ Sun Sign › Pisces
🌊 Zodiac Element › Water
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Mutable
🪐 Ruling Planet › Neptune ♆
🐼 Spirit Animal › Wolf
🔢 Life Path Number › 9
🌼 Birth flower › Daffodil
🪨 Birthstone › Aquamarine
📅 Lucky day › Thursday ⬤Power Color › Light Green
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.63
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,984,000,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 412,855,200 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,942,848,000 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,833,320,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 339,998,400 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on November 14, 2009.
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.
Eileen Herlie [Herlihy], Scottish-American actress (All My Children, The Angel with the Trumpet)
1924
Judy Johnson [Betty Bonney], American singer (Your Show of Shows; "How Little We Know")
1961
Camryn Manheim, American actress (The Practice)
1915
Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (Me tulemme taas, Rion yö)
Holidays on Wednesday, March 8th
Discover What Your Name Means Day
Discover What Your Name Means Day is a special day where you find out the unique meaning and history behind your name, celebrating its significance and maybe learning something surprising about yourself.
Learn What Your Name Means Day
Learn What Your Name Means Day, celebrated on the third Wednesday of March, encourages you to explore the origin and meaning behind your name, highlighting how special and unique it is to your identity.
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.
United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace
The United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace, celebrated on March 8th alongside International Women's Day, is a day dedicated to fighting for women's equality and promoting peace worldwide.
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.
