What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1989?

In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1989 falls in the year of the Earth Dragon.

What is the birthstone for January?

The birthstone for January is garnet.

What was the moon phase on January 1, 1989?

On January 1, 1989 the moon was a Last Quarter.

A Sunday

Born on January 1, 1989?

Here's the world on that day. Add a name and a birthplace for the full time capsule: the weather, the sky above your town and what things cost.

📅 Weekday
Sunday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Earth Dragon
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
37 years

Famous people born on January 1, 1989

Sarah Hegazi

Egyptian LGBT activist

Zehra Doğan

Turkish journalist of Kurdish ancestry (born 1989)

Hamza Kasgari

Saudi Arabian writer

Essaïd Belkalem

Algerian association football player

Thando Hopa

South African model, activist, and lawyer

Jaha Dukureh

Gambian women's rights activist

Sabah Shariati

Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler

Marie Christina Kolo

climate activist and ecofeminist

Edita Vilkevičiūtė

Lithuanian model

Felix Drahotta

German rower (born 1989)

Tameem Al-Kubati

Yemeni taekwondo practitioner

Adam Okruashvili

Georgian olympic judoka

What happened that day

The New York Times discloses involvement of West German company Imhausen and Salzgitter AG in building a chemical weapon plant in Rabta, Libya.

Also that week

Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa takes office as the third President of Sri Lanka.
Gulf of Sidra incident (1989): Two Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are engaged and shot down by two US Navy F-14 Tomcats.
Emperor Hirohito dies; his son Akihito ascends as the 125th Emperor of Japan, followed by the change in the era name from Shōwa to Heisei on the following day.
British Midland Flight 092 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on an M1 motorway near the East Midlands Airport, 47 people were killed and 79 people survived.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Poison

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🎵 No. 1 song

January 1, 1989 was a Sunday. Someone born on January 1, 1989 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 1989 is 37 years old today and has lived about 13,822 days. People born in 1989 belong to the Millennials.

Also born on January 1

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Alexander VI
1431 · pope of the Catholic Church – from the Borgia family
Lorenzo de' Medici
1449 · Italian politician, literary man and humanist
Huldrych Zwingli
1484 · Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder
Hong Xiuquan
1814 · Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion
Sándor Petőfi
1823 · Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
Pierre de Coubertin
1863 · founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
George Washington Carver
1864 · African American botanist and inventor
Satyendra Nath Bose
1894 · Indian Bengali physicist and polymath
Ousmane Sembène
1923 · Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author

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Questions about January 1, 1989

What day of the week was January 1, 1989?: January 1, 1989 was a Sunday.
What star sign is someone born on January 1, 1989?: Someone born on January 1, 1989 is a Capricorn.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1989?: In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1989 falls in the year of the Earth Dragon.
How old is someone born on January 1, 1989?: Someone born on January 1, 1989 is 37 years old today and has lived about 13,822 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1989?: People born in 1989 belong to the Millennials.
What is the birthstone for January?: The birthstone for January is garnet.
What was the moon phase on January 1, 1989?: On January 1, 1989 the moon was a Last Quarter.

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