17 July 2020: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn cool facts about Friday, July 17, 2020 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

Your next birthday is in:

You’ve taken nearly 34,534,080 breaths and experienced over 197,337,600 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 41,934,240 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 4 years, 8 months, and 9 days

📅 You were born on a Friday

🌘 The moon was in Waning Crescent phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Generation Alpha

🐀 Born in → The Year of the Rat

😴 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: 571 days of your life or 1.56 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Bad Boys for Life

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Rockstar" by DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch (source: Billboard Hot 100)

The number 1 DJ in the world was David Guetta followed by Dmitri Vegas & Like Mike and Martin Garrix according to DJ Mag.

♋ 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 1 ?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)

1962

Bill Sage, American actor

1954

J. Michael Straczynski, American television screenwriter, producer, comic book writer and director (Babylon 5; Jeremiah; Changeling)

1983

Brooke Kinsella, British actress (Eastenders)

1979

Mike Vogel, American actor (Under the Dome)

1906

John Carroll [Julian LaFaye], American actor (Flying Tigers, Go West)

1946

Alun Armstrong, English actor (New Tricks)

1988

Summer Bishil, American actress

At the age of 56, Jeff Bezos was the richest person in the world in 2020 with $113 billion fortune, followed by Bill Gates with $98 billion, according to Forbes.

📜 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

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.

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.

🏆 Sports in 2020

🏒 NHL

Tampa Bay Lightning defeated Dallas Stars (4 - 2) to win the 2020 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

Kansas City Chiefs beat San Francisso 49ers (20 - 31) to win Super Bowl LIV on February 2, 2020 in Miami Gardens, FL.

⚾ MLB

Los Angeles Dodgers beat Tampa Bay Rays (4 - 2) to win the 2020 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 2020 US Open Championships, Dominic Thiem defeated Alexander Zverev (2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6) to win the men's singles title. Naomi Osaka beat Victoria Azarenka (1-6, 6-3, 6-3) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

July 17, 2020 can be written as VII-XVII-MMXX. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for July 17, 2020
→ Day Index: 199th day of 2020
→ Day of week: Friday
→ Week Index: 3rd Friday of 2020
→ Next same calendar year: 2048
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 5 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 2,466,735 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 571 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 19 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 1.56 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 58 🌘
→ Life path number: 1
→ Zodiac sign: Cancer ♋
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Moon
→ Birth flower: Larkspur
→ Birthstone: Ruby
→ Spirit Animal: Woodpecker
→ Power Color: Silver
→ President of United States:
→ World population 2020: 7,794,798,739 Source: un.org

The 2020 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2048. So, mark your calendars!

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