Date:December 29, 1979

December 29, 1979

December 12, 1979 birthday facts

Learn must-know facts about Saturday, December 29, 1979 that no one tells you about. ⬇️


Your next birthday is in:

You’ve taken nearly 326,571,840 breaths and experienced over 1,866,124,800 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 396,551,520 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 44 years, 4 months, and 7 days


📅 You were born on a Saturday


🌔 The moon was in Waxing Gibbous phase on this day


⌛ Born into → Generation X


🐐 Born in → The Year of the Goat


😴 You’ve slept about 33% of your life! ?💤 Assuming you’ve been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth. Here is how much time you’ve spent sleeping so far: 5,400 days of your life or 14.79 years.


🍿 #1 movie was: Kramer vs. Kramer


🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Escape (Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes (source: Billboard Hot 100)


♑ December 29 zodiac sign is Capricorn ?There are 12 zodiac signs, and each sign has its own strengths and weaknesses, its own specific traits, desires and attitude towards life and people. Astrology can give us a glimpse of a person’s basic characteristics, preferences, flaws and fears.


🔢 Your life path number is 4 ?Numerology links numbers to certain traits, much like how astrology connects planets and zodiac signs to characteristics. It’s used to understand personality, predict future happenings, and explore life’s meaning.


🪐 Your ruling planet is Saturn


🪨 Your birthstone is Tanzanite, Turquoise, Zircon and Topaz ?Each month is represented by a specific birthstone, symbolizing the birth month of an individual. The properties associated with that birthstone are believed to be “inherited” by the person born in that particular month.


🌷 The birth flower for December is Narcissus ?Each month has a flower that symbolizes the month of somebody’s birth. The characteristics that the flower has may be “inherited” by whoever is born in that certain month person.


📅 Your lucky day → Saturday


🦅 Your spirit animal → Goose


Celebrities born on December 29th

1950
Jon Polito, American actor (Fire With Fire, Homicide)

1963
Dave McKean, British artist and filmmaker

1947
Ted Danson, American actor (Cheers -"Sam"; 3 Men & A Baby: CSI; The Good Place)

1960
Katerina Didaskalou, Greek actress

1986
Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress

1987
Iain De Caestecker, Scottish actor (Young James Herriot; Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

1997
Dylan Minnette, American actor (13 Reasons Why; Saving Grace), and singer-songwriter (Wallows - Are You Bored Yet?)

1967
Lilly [formerly Andy] Wachowski, American film director (Matrix trilogy)


📜 Historical events on this date

1835
The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.

1845
Texas admitted as 28th state of the Union.

1903
French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari.

1911
Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of the Republic of China.

1940
Germany drops its 1st incendiary bombs on London during the Blitz.

1997
Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu.


🎄 Holidays on December 29

National Pepper Pot Day
National Pepper Pot Day, celebrated on December 29th, honors a spicy soup known as "The Soup That Won the War," which played a role in the American Revolutionary War and has roots in Caribbean cuisine brought to America by enslaved people.

Still Need To Do Day
Still Need To Do Day, celebrated on December 29, is a day to finish up all the tasks and promises you've been putting off all year before the year ends.

Tick Tock Day
Tick Tock Day, celebrated on December 29th, reminds us to hurry up and finish any tasks we've been putting off before the year ends.


🏆 Sports in 1979

🏒 NHL
Montreal Canadiens defeated New York Rangers (4 - 1) to win the 1979 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL
Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys (35 - 31) to win Super Bowl XIII on January 21, 1979 in Miami, FL.

⚾ MLB
Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles (4 - 3) to win the 1979 World Series.

🎾 Tennis
In the 1979 US Open Championships, John McEnroe defeated Vitas Gerulaitis (7-5, 6-3, 6-3) to win the men's singles title. Tracy Austin beat Chris Evert (6-4, 6-3) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

December 29, 1979 can be written as XII-XXIX-MCMLXXIX. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.


🔦 Facts Summary for December 29, 1979
Day Index: 363rd day of 1979
Day of week: Saturday
Week Index: 5th Saturday of 1979
Next same calendar year: 2029
Days until next birthday:
Age on next birthday: 45 years old
Days since birth:
You are: 23,327,201 minutes old
Days spent sleeping: 5,400 days
Months spent sleeping: 177 months
Years spent sleeping: 14.79 years
Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
Full moons since birth: 549 🌔
Life path number: 4
Zodiac sign: Capricorn ♑
Zodiac ruling planet: Saturn
Birth flower: Narcissus
Birthstone: Tanzanite, Turquoise, Zircon and Topaz
Spirit Animal: Goose
Power Color: Grey
President of United States:
World population 1979: 4,380,585,755 Source: un.org

The 1979 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2029. So, mark your calendars!

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