Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Monday, April 17, 1978:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Friday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Grease
🎮 Number one video game › Space Invaders
🎵 Number one song › "Night Fever" by The Bee Gees
🐎 Chinese Zodiac › Horse
☀️ Sun Sign › Aries
🔥 Zodiac Element › Fire
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Cardinal
🪐 Ruling Planet › Mars ♂
🐼 Spirit Animal › Hawk
🔢 Life Path Number › 1
🌼 Birth flower › Sweet Pea/Daisy
🪨 Birthstone › Diamond
📅 Lucky day › Tuesday ⬤Power Color › Red
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.63
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,900,800,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 411,582,240 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,936,857,600 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,824,584,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 338,950,080 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on December 24, 2009.
What happened on my birthday
1387
Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" characters begin their pilgrimage to Canterbury (according to scholars).
1492
Christopher Columbus signs a contract with the Spanish monarchs to find the "Indies" with the stated goal of converting people to Catholicism. This promises him 10% of all riches found, and the governorship of any lands encountered.
1895
Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
1961
1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
1982
Proclamation of the Constitution Act by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Famous people with my birthday
1947
Linda Martin, Irish singer and TV presenter
1954
Kim Tyler, American actor (Kyle-Please Don't Eat Daisies)
1995
Paulie Litt, American actor
1966
Vikram [Kennedy John Victor], Indian actor (I)
1971
Claire Sweeney, British stage and screen actress (Brookside)
1956
Elizabeth Lindsey, American explorer, filmmaker (Then There Were None), and actress (China Beach; The Byrds of Paradise)
1937
Daffy Duck, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Porky's Duck Hunt"
1924
Donald Richie, American-born author and (Japanese) film critic
Holidays on Monday, April 17th
Blah Blah Blah Day
Blah Blah Blah Day, celebrated every April 17th, is all about finally doing those things people keep nagging you about, like starting your New Year's resolutions, and comes from a term first used in 1918 to describe pointless chatter.
National Crawfish Day
National Crawfish Day, celebrated on April 17th, is a day when people in the Southern United States enjoy a popular regional dish made from small, lobster-like crustaceans known as crawfish, highlighting their cultural and culinary significance.
Yom HaShoah
Yom HaShoah is a day when Jews around the world remember the 6 million Jews who were killed by Hitler and his followers during the Holocaust, ensuring we never forget this tragic part of history.
Malbec World Day
Malbec World Day is celebrated on April 17th each year to honor the Malbec grape, famous for making wine, and marks the day Argentina started focusing on improving its wine industry back in 1853.
Ford Mustang Day
Ford Mustang Day, celebrated on April 17th, is when car enthusiasts honor the iconic and powerful Ford Mustang by showing off their cars and joining in events and rallies worldwide.
