What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 11, 1979?

In the Chinese zodiac, December 11, 1979 falls in the year of the Earth Goat.

What is the birthstone for December?

The birthstone for December is turquoise.

What was the moon phase on December 11, 1979?

On December 11, 1979 the moon was a Last Quarter.

A Tuesday

Born on December 11, 1979?

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📅 Weekday
Tuesday
♐ Star sign
Sagittarius
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Earth Goat
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
46 years

Famous people born on December 11, 1979

Markus Katzer

Association footballer

Dilawar

Afghan torture victim (1979-2002)

Born the same week

Christian Wilhelmsson

December 8 · Swedish footballer (born 1979)

Emin

December 12 · Azerbaijani-Russian singer and businessman

Michael Owen

December 14 · English association football player

Sophie Monk

December 14 · Australian actor and singer

What happened that week

The NATO Double-Track Decision: is the decision of NATO from December 12, 1979, to offer the Warsaw Pact a mutual limitation of medium-range ballistic missiles and intermediate-range ballistic missiles combined with the threat that in case of disagreement NATO would deploy more middle-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe, following the so-called "Euromissile Crisis".
The 8.2 Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami.
Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-hah, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.
The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia.
The Canadian Progressive Conservative minority government of Prime Minister Joe Clark, falls in a non-confidence motion.
The directorial debut of Hayao Miyazaki, The Castle of Cagliostro, is released in Japan.

What happened that day

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🎵 No. 1 song

December 11, 1979 was a Tuesday. Someone born on December 11, 1979 is a Sagittarius. Someone born on December 11, 1979 is 46 years old today and has lived about 17,131 days. People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.

Also born on December 11

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Hector Berlioz
1803 · French composer and conductor
Robert Koch
1843 · German physician, bacteriologist
Max Born
1882 · German-Jewish physicist and mathematician
Naguib Mahfouz
1911 · Egyptian writer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918 · Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician

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Questions about December 11, 1979

What day of the week was December 11, 1979?: December 11, 1979 was a Tuesday.
What star sign is someone born on December 11, 1979?: Someone born on December 11, 1979 is a Sagittarius.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 11, 1979?: In the Chinese zodiac, December 11, 1979 falls in the year of the Earth Goat.
How old is someone born on December 11, 1979?: Someone born on December 11, 1979 is 46 years old today and has lived about 17,131 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1979?: People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
What is the birthstone for December?: The birthstone for December is turquoise.
What was the moon phase on December 11, 1979?: On December 11, 1979 the moon was a Last Quarter.

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