Date:July 17, 1979

July 17, 1979

July 7, 1979 birthday facts

Learn interesting facts about Tuesday, July 17, 1979 that no one tells you about. ⬇️


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You’ve taken nearly 335,502,720 breaths and experienced over 1,917,158,400 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 407,396,160 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 45 years, 6 months, and 21 days


📅 You were born on a Tuesday


🌗 The moon was in Last Quarter 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: 5,547 days of your life or 15.2 years.


🍿 #1 movie was: Kramer vs. Kramer


🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer (source: Billboard Hot 100)


♋ July 17 zodiac sign is Cancer ?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 5 ?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 Moon


🪨 Your birthstone is Ruby ?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 July is Larkspur ?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 → Monday


🦅 Your spirit animal → Woodpecker


Celebrities born on July 17th

1912
Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and TV host (People are Funny)

1979
Mike Vogel, American actor (Under the Dome)

1965
Alex Winter, English actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)

1933
Bruce Wells, English boxer (European amateur light middleweight champion 1953) and actor (Dr. Who 1965-73)

1944
Catherine Schell [Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott], Hungarian-born British actress (two Pink Panther films)

1945
Fenneken Fockema Andreae, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)

1934
Willie Ito, American animator for Disney Studios ("Lady and the Tramp" spaghetti kiss); Warner Brothers; Hanna-Barbara)

1915
Catherine "Cass" Daley, American actress (Star Spangled Rhythm, Red Garters)


📜 Historical events on this date

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.

1945
Potsdam Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting.

2014
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.


🎄 Holidays on July 17

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.

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.


🏆 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.

July 17, 1979 can be written as VII-XVII-MCMLXXIX. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.


🔦 Facts Summary for July 17, 1979
Day Index: 198th day of 1979
Day of week: Tuesday
Week Index: 3rd Tuesday of 1979
Next same calendar year: 2029
Days until next birthday:
Age on next birthday: 46 years old
Days since birth:
You are: 23,965,850 minutes old
Days spent sleeping: 5,547 days
Months spent sleeping: 182 months
Years spent sleeping: 15.2 years
Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
Full moons since birth: 564 🌗
Life path number: 5
Zodiac sign: Cancer ♋
Zodiac ruling planet: Moon
Birth flower: Larkspur
Birthstone: Ruby
Spirit Animal: Woodpecker
Power Color: Silver
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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