Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Monday, July 17, 1978:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Thursday
🎂 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 › "Shadow Dancing" by Andy Gibb
🐎 Chinese Zodiac › Horse
☀️ Sun Sign › Cancer
🌊 Zodiac Element › Water
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Cardinal
🪐 Ruling Planet › Moon ☽
🐼 Spirit Animal › Woodpecker
🔢 Life Path Number › 4
🌼 Birth flower › Larkspur
🪨 Birthstone › Ruby
📅 Lucky day › Monday ⬤Power Color › Silver
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.63
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,761,600,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 409,452,480 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,926,835,200 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,809,968,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 337,196,160 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on March 25, 2010.
What happened on my birthday
180
6 inhabitants of Carthage, North Africa executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in this part of the world.
1203
Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade, Crusaders aboad a Venetian fleet attack the city.
1762
Catherine II becomes tsarina of Russia following the murder of Peter III.
1918
The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia.
1936
Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.
Famous people with my birthday
1933
Bruce Wells, English boxer (European amateur light middleweight champion 1953) and actor (Dr. Who 1965-73)
1905
Bill Gargan, American actor (The Bells of St. Mary's; You Only Live Once)
1964
Heather Langenkamp, American actress (Marie-Just the 10 of Us)
1983
Brooke Kinsella, British actress (Eastenders)
1937
Elmer Fudd [originally Egghead], Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery and Chuck Jones (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series)
1978
Justine Triet, French filmmaker (Anatomy of a Fall)
1942
Gale Garnett, New Zealand-Canadian folk singer-songwriter ("We'll Sing in the Sunshine"), and actress
1951
Lucie Arnaz, American actress (Here's Lucy - "Kim": The Jazz Singer), and singer
Holidays on Monday, July 17th
National Lottery Day
National Lottery Day, celebrated on July 17th, is about the thrill and hope of winning big money by playing lottery games, making it a day when people dream about hitting the jackpot and imagining what they'd do with their winnings.
National Get Out of the Dog House Day
National Get Out of the Dog House Day is a day when people try to make things right with someone they've upset, getting themselves out of trouble or making up for a mistake.
Yellow Pig Day
Yellow Pig Day, celebrated on July 17th, is a quirky holiday where people not only appreciate a mythical yellow pig but mainly celebrate the magic and mysteries of the number 17 and all things math.
Wrong Way Corrigan Day
Wrong Way Corrigan Day celebrates the adventurous pilot who, on July 17, famously flew from New York to Ireland instead of California, claiming he went the "wrong way" by mistake.
National Peach Ice Cream Day
National Peach Ice Cream Day, celebrated on July 17th, is a fun holiday where everyone enjoys eating delicious peach-flavored ice cream to beat the summer heat.
