Did you know that January 8, 1998 was not only a very special day, but also a very unique one? Here are 14 funny facts about this unique day that will help you understand why it's so special. It's very important to pay attention to these facts because otherwise you might miss out on something truly amazing.
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If you forget what day you were born, we will tell you that you were born on Thursday, 8
Countdown to Your 28th Birthday
-- days-- hours-- minutes-- secondsThis year you are getting older. You have celebrated your 27th birthday on Wednesday. How was your 27th birthday? Is it fun? We wish you good memories on your birthday. Celebrating a festive birthday party with family and friends, getting gifts and surprises will certainly make you happier.
Did you know that people born on January 8
We have calculated your birthday for the next 10 years. It's going to be a fun time to celebrate with family and friends. You'll get lots of gifts, too! There are 190 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 28 years old. There have been 10037 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 3346 days, which is equivalent to 9.17 years. You spent 33.96% of your life sleeping!
Year | Day | Your Age |
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2026 | Thursday | 28 Years Old |
2027 | Friday | 29 Years Old |
2028 | Saturday | 30 Years Old |
2029 | Monday | 31 Years Old |
2030 | Tuesday | 32 Years Old |
2031 | Wednesday | 33 Years Old |
2032 | Thursday | 34 Years Old |
2033 | Saturday | 35 Years Old |
2034 | Sunday | 36 Years Old |
2035 | Monday | 37 Years Old |
According to western astrology, the zodiac sign of people born on January 8
If you were born on January 8, 1998, you are an intelligent, creative, confident and spontaneous person who is able to face challenges with willpower and energy. You are a lover or a fighter. Garnet is the birthstone for those born on January 8, 1998, representing the best of traits. It keeps you protected and warns of danger.
When you were born, there were many famous people in history who were born on the same day as you but in different years. The following are famous people in history who commemorate birthdays on January 8
Year | Name |
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1908 | William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975) |
1909 | Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (d. 1995) |
1909 | Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (d. 1995) |
1909 | Evelyn Wood, American author and educator (d. 1995) |
1910 | Galina Ulanova, Russian actress and ballerina (d. 1998) |
1911 | Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer, and author (d. 1970) |
1912 | José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor and director (d. 1992) |
1912 | Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (d. 2014) |
1915 | Walker Cooper, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991) |
1917 | Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1994) |
Did you know that on January 8
Year | Name |
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1954 | Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1898) |
1958 | Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (b. 1869) |
1961 | Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player and coach (b. 1910) |
1963 | Kay Sage, American painter (b. 1898) |
1975 | Richard Tucker, American operatic tenor (b. 1913) |
1976 | Zhou Enlai, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898) |
1980 | John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907) |
1982 | Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908) |
1983 | Gerhard Barkhorn, German general and pilot (b. 1919) |
1986 | Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (b. 1906) |
History has been made on your birthday. The following are important historical events that occurred on January 8
Year | Event |
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1994 | Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. |
1996 | An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 people on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed. |
2002 | President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act. |
2003 | Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board. |
2003 | Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers. |
2004 | The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. |
2005 | The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired. |
2009 | A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32. |
2010 | Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine. |
2011 | Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge. |
In 1998, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Michael is the most used. A total of 36,616 baby boys were named Michael in 1998. The rest were named Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. While the popular baby girl name in 1998 was Emily. There were 26,185 baby girls named Emily that year. While the rest were named Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. These statistics are obtained from ssa.gov which compiles popular baby names of the last century in United States.
Based on World Population Data, in 1998 there were 5,984,794,075 babies born into the world. If we take the mean value, we get 498,732,840. This shows that there were 498,732,840 babies born every month in 1998. It can also be concluded that there are 16,624,428 babies born every day and 11,545 babies born every minute which is mean that 193 babies born every second in the year 1998. Maybe one of them is you.
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