This is a thorough look at the essential facts regarding January 21, 1988, that no one tells you about. Prepare to have your mind blown if your birthday falls on this date.
Discover your zodiac sign, governing planet, soul animal, and qualities. Learn about your numerology number and its properties, as well as your power color and lucky day. Read about interesting things and events that occurred when you were born. Everything from global and athletic events to the number one song on your birthday, the most popular movie of the year, your birthstone, celebs that share your birthday, and much more!
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📅 Day of the Week
What day of the week was January 21st, 1988: In the Georgian calendar, January 21st was the 21st day of 1988. It was the 1st month of the year and the 4th Thursday. This date was 13,446 days ago. It was also the 52nd day of Winter, with 40 days left until Spring. In 2044, you will be able to re-use the 1988 calendar. The calendars will be identical in every way.
🗓️ 1st quarter of the year
🗓️ January 21, 1988, was a Thursday
🗓️ There were 366 days in 1988 since it is leap year.
🗓️ January 21 will fall on a Wednesday in 2024.
What is my age today?
You’re 36 old, born in the Year of the Dragon 🐉. Your zodiac sign is Aquarius ♒, and being born in 1988 makes you a part of the Millennials Generation. Your zodiac sign and the generation you’re born into make a difference in your personality and life. We’ll explain everything further down.
You are part of Generation Y (also known as millenials or "echo boomers" because millennials are often the children of baby boomers). Millennials are a generation that grew up with computers, the internet, and social media. They tend to be confident and accepting of difference since they were raised with the phrase "follow your dreams" and informed they were exceptional. There are no specific dates for when the Millennial generation began and finished. The birth years used by the researchers ranged from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.You’ve been alive for , and you are about . If you’ve been sleeping for 8 hours every day since birth, you’ve slept for 4,482 days or 147 months – almost 33% of your life! Up till today, there have been 456 🌖 full moons since you were born.
⏱️ You are old
With an average heart rate of 80 beats per minute, your heart beat 1,548,979,200 times. A human’s heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times throughout its lifetime. In addition, you took about 271,071,360 breaths since birth. A person resting breathing rate is between 12 and 16 breaths per minute.
🎂 Birthday
You were born on a Thursday in the Winter of 1988. Thur is taken from the Norse deity Thor, who you may recognize from the Marvel Avengers comic. People born on Thursdays do not necessarily resemble Chris Hemsworth, but they do share many of Thor's personality qualities. Thor, or Jupiter in Roman, is an upbeat, friendly, and generally entertaining god, which means Thursday's newborns get to be the stars of the party.
This signifies that your birth date has a numerology of 3. This date also reveals your lucky day is a Wednesday, and your power color is Blue ⬤. Your numerology number makes a difference in your personality and life.
🐉 You were born in the Year of the Dragon
⏳ You have been alive:
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⭐️ On your next birthday, you will be 37 years old.
🌌 Your birth sign is Aquarius
A person blinks about 17 times each minute, so you have blinked about 329,158,080 times in a lifetime. Assuming you took 7,000 steps every day, you’ve walked approximately 2,258,928,000 steps.
Your 37th birthday is away; this year, it will be on a Tuesday. The timer below counts down to your upcoming birthday.
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🌠 Did you know: You’ve also traveled more than 21,513,600,000 miles 🚀 through the Milky Way since Earth moves over 1.6 million miles every day.
What day of the week is January 21
| January 21, 2024 | Sunday |
| January 21, 2025 | Tuesday |
| January 21, 2026 | Wednesday |
| January 21, 2027 | Thursday |
| January 21, 2028 | Friday |
🔭 What is my zodiac sign?
You are a Aquarius ♒. There are 12 zodiac signs, also known as astrological signs, each having its unique set of strengths, problems, emotions, patterns, connections, and other characteristics. In Astrology, your zodiac sign represents the sun’s location at the time of your birth and has the most significance on your life and personality.
Aquarius' life goal is to unravel life's secrets, and he has a secret longing to be distinctive and original. Those born under this sign like having fun with their friends, helping others, fighting for causes, having intelligent talks, being a good listener, and despise constraints, broken promises, being lonely, dull or boring circumstances, and people who disagree with them. This sign's virtues include progressive, innovative, autonomous, and humaniAquarius' life goal is to unravel life's secrets, and he has a secret longing to be distinctive and original. Those born under this sign like having fun with their friends, helping others, fighting for causes, having intelligent conversations, being a good listener, and despise constraints, broken promises, being lonely, dull or boring circumstances, and people who disagree with them. This sign's virtues include progressive, innovative, autonomous, and humanitarian, but its shortcomings range from emotional expressiveness to temperamental, unyielding, and aloof. Aquarius has the best overall compatibility with Leo and Sagittarius.🌌 Ruling Planet: Uranus
🐉 Zodiac Animal Sign: Dragon
〰️ Zodiac Quality: Fixed
🌊 Zodiac Element: Water
Your ruling planet is Uranus ♅. There are ten primary planets, each representing a particular set of features and characteristics and rules over a different aspect of our existence, each with its distinct feel. Just as with the zodiac sign, it’s vital to understand the planets and how they affect your life. They all have various effects on us, and knowing which aspects of our lives they rule is crucial to interpreting your horoscope.
The outer planets, Neptune and Pluto, were not discovered until the beginning of the second millennium BCE because the telescope had not yet been invented. Astrologers and astronomers could only study planets that were visible to the naked eye.🌌 What is my Chinese Zodiac sign?
According to the Chinese Zodiac calendar, being born in 1988 means your zodiac animal is a Dragon 🐉. The Chinese zodiac follows a 12-year cycle, with each year cycle corresponding to a different animal sign. For more than 2,000 years, Chinese culture has had a zodiac system. The Chinese zodiac animal, like the zodiac signs, has characteristics and importance. The animal that rules a person’s birth year has a significant impact on their personality and fate.
People born in the Dragon year are lively and enthusiastic. They despise hypocrisy and gossip and may be rude and angry at times. Men born in the Dragon year are firm in their ideas, and women are captivating and powerful. Unfortunately, those born in the Year of the Dragon are sometimes self-centered.Dragon is the animal of the year for 2024.
🐺 What is my Spirit Animal?
Otter is your Spirit Animal. Cheery, vibrant, joyful, friendly, vivacious, and generous. Learn to enjoy yourself.
🎶 Number 1 song on my birthday
The number one song on January 21, 1988, was – "The Way You Make Me Feel" by Michael Jackson
🔀 Popular birthday songs: Katy Perry's 'Birthday'.
✅ Fact: In the United States, the song “Happy Birthday” is in the public domain. Warner Chappell Music has claimed copyright in the past, however that claim was found to be invalid in 2015.
🔢 My Numerology number
We calculated your numerology number. If you were born on January 21, 1988, your numerology number is 3. Your numerology number is intended to provide information about your larger purpose, such as your strengths, weaknesses, personality, abilities, and objectives. The tone of your experiences, as well as why events occur in the past, present, and future, are revealed by your numerology number.
The Numerology of 3 means that you came into this plane with a strong sense of creativity and excellent communication abilities. Threes are natural-born salespeople, having plenty of charm and a natural flair for gab. Threes values include creativity, self-expression, and enjoyment, while obstacles include remaining positive-yet realistic-in the face of adversity.🎂 Famous birthdays on this day
Celebrities born on January 21, 1988, are listed below. You share a birthday with Glaiza de Castro (pop singer), Felipe Neto (YouTuber).
🗺️ The world on January 21, 1988
Ronald Reagan (Republican) was President of the United States, and the world population was around 5.15 billion people. In 1988, there were an estimated 139,142,510 infants born across the world. According to Social Security Administration, the most common baby names in 1988 were Jessica for girls and Michael for males.
In 1988, the TIME Person of the Year was The Endangered Earth. The planet was chosen to represent the growing environmental movement and several natural and ecological disasters that happened in 1988, such as the 1988–1989 North American drought, "syringe tide," 1988 Bangladesh cyclone, and 1988 Armenian earthquake, as well as ozone depletion, global warming, radioactive contamination, and deforestation.
Rain Man directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino was the most popular film of 1988. Super Mario Bros. 3 developed by Nintendo, was one of the most popular video games in 1988.
🎅 Holidays on January 21
No major holidays found for this date.
📜 Historical events on this day
The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy" is published.
Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason.
Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India.
The Battle of Khe Sanh - one of the most publicized and controversial battles of the Vietnam War - begins at the Khe Sanh Air Base.
🏟️ Sporting events in 1988
⚽ The 1988 UEFA Champions League season was the 33rd season of Europe's elite club football tournament. In the final, played in Stuttgart, PSV Eindhoven defeated Benfica 0 - 0 (2 - 0 PKs).
🏏 India and West Indies faced off in the 1983 Cricket World Cup at Lord's in London, England. In the final, India defeated West Indies by 43 runs.
🏈 Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos (42 - 10) to win Super Bowl XXII on January 31, 1988 in San Diego, CA.
⚾ Los Angeles Dodgers beat Oakland Athletics (4 - 1) to win the 1988 World Series.
🏀 Los Angeles Lakers beat Detroit Pistons (4 - 3) to win the 1988 NBA Finals.
🏒 Edmonton Oilers defeated Boston Bruins (4 - 0) to win the 1988 Stanley Cup.
🎾 In the 1988 US Open Tennis Championships, Mats Wilander defeated Ivan Lendl (6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4) to win men's singles title. Steffi Graf beat Gabriela Sabatini (6-3, 3-6, 6-1) to become US Open women's singles champion.
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🪨 What is my Birthstone?
The birthstone for January 21 is Garnet. The birthstone for January is garnet. Because of its similarity to a dark red pomegranate seed, the name garnet is derived from the Latin word "granate," which means seed. Garnet is a symbol of rebirth and energy, and it is said to ward off evil spirits. Garnet gemstones can also be used to manifest and make one's dreams a reality, as well as to promote one's own profession or to inspire and nurture creativity. Garnet also has strong emotional healing effects, like making you more committed, giving you hope, and making you feel less hopeless.
🌸 What is my Birth Flower?
According to BirthdayFact, the birth flower for January 21 is Carnation. The carnation is the natal flower for January. The carnation is one of the most beautiful flowers, with ruffled petals and a broad range of hues. They have a subtle clove-like aroma and long-lasting blossoms.
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