What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 18, 1968?

In the Chinese zodiac, August 18, 1968 falls in the year of the Earth Monkey.

What is the birthstone for August?

The birthstone for August is peridot.

What was the moon phase on August 18, 1968?

On August 18, 1968 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

A Sunday

Born on August 18, 1968?

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📅 Weekday
Sunday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐒 Chinese zodiac
Earth Monkey
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
58 years

Famous people born on August 18, 1968

Olivier Faure

French politician (born 1968); First Secretary of the French Socialist Party

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Ali Thani Jumaa

Emirati footballer

Lee Seung-yeon

South Korean actress (born 1968)

Daniele Silvestri

Italian singer-songwriter

Brian Tichy

American drummer

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John Coyle

American short-track speed skater

John Lieswyn

American racing cyclist and New Zealand transport planner

Wojciech Pomajda

Polish politician

What happened that day

Two charter buses are forced into the Hida River on National Highway Route 41 in Japan in an accident caused by heavy rain; 104 are killed.

Also that week

21 – Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: The 'Prague Spring' of political liberalization ends, as 750,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 6,500 tanks with 800 aircraft invade Czechoslovakia, the largest military operation in Europe since the end of World War II.
30 – 1968 Democratic National Convention protests: Police clash with anti-Vietnam War protesters in Chicago outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. president and Edmund Muskie for vice president. The riots and subsequent trials are an essential part of the activism of the Youth International Party.
Canopus (nuclear test): France explodes its first hydrogen bomb in a test at Fangataufa atoll in French Polynesia.
The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and return – the journey is known as the Fifteen Guinea Special.

Famous people born on August 18, 1968

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

People Got To Be Free

The Rascals

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

August 18, 1968 was a Sunday. Someone born on August 18, 1968 is a Leo. Someone born on August 18, 1968 is 58 years old today and has lived about 21,262 days. People born in 1968 belong to Generation X.

Also born on August 18

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Franz Joseph I of Austria
1830 · Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
1863 · Russian chemist and photographer
Roman Polanski
1933 · French-Polish filmmaker (born )

Questions about August 18, 1968

What day of the week was August 18, 1968?: August 18, 1968 was a Sunday.
What star sign is someone born on August 18, 1968?: Someone born on August 18, 1968 is a Leo.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 18, 1968?: In the Chinese zodiac, August 18, 1968 falls in the year of the Earth Monkey.
How old is someone born on August 18, 1968?: Someone born on August 18, 1968 is 58 years old today and has lived about 21,262 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1968?: People born in 1968 belong to Generation X.
What is the birthstone for August?: The birthstone for August is peridot.
What was the moon phase on August 18, 1968?: On August 18, 1968 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

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