What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 5, 1988?

In the Chinese zodiac, October 5, 1988 falls in the year of the Earth Dragon.

What is the birthstone for October?

The birthstone for October is opal.

What was the moon phase on October 5, 1988?

On October 5, 1988 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

A Wednesday

Born on October 5, 1988?

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📅 Weekday
Wednesday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Earth Dragon
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
38 years

Famous people born on October 5, 1988

Salman Al-Moasher

Saudi Arabian association football player

Mostapha El Kabir

Moroccan association football player

Liban Abdi

association football player

Robbie Kruse

Australian association football player

Maja Salvador

Filipino actress (born 1988)

Shabnim Ismail

South African cricketer who made her debut for the national women's team in January 2007

What happened that day

Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government; by October 10 the army has tortured and killed about 500 people in crushing the riots.
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet loses a national plebiscite on his rule; he relinquishes power in 1990.
Promulgation of the 1988 Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil.

Also that week

STS-26: NASA resumes Space Shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.
Walsh Street police shootings: Two Victoria Police officers are gunned down, execution style, in Australia.
The Birchandra Manu massacre occurs in Tripura, India.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

Love Bites

Def Leppard

🎵 No. 1 song

October 5, 1988 was a Wednesday. Someone born on October 5, 1988 is a Libra. Someone born on October 5, 1988 is 38 years old today and has lived about 13,910 days. People born in 1988 belong to the Millennials.

Also born on October 5

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Jonathan Edwards
1703 · Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Denis Diderot
1713 · French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist
Robert H. Goddard
1882 · American physicist
Václav Havel
1936 · Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic

Questions about October 5, 1988

What day of the week was October 5, 1988?: October 5, 1988 was a Wednesday.
What star sign is someone born on October 5, 1988?: Someone born on October 5, 1988 is a Libra.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 5, 1988?: In the Chinese zodiac, October 5, 1988 falls in the year of the Earth Dragon.
How old is someone born on October 5, 1988?: Someone born on October 5, 1988 is 38 years old today and has lived about 13,910 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1988?: People born in 1988 belong to the Millennials.
What is the birthstone for October?: The birthstone for October is opal.
What was the moon phase on October 5, 1988?: On October 5, 1988 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

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