26 May 1974: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn cool facts about Sunday, May 26, 1974 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

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You’ve taken nearly 370,923,840 breaths and experienced over 2,119,564,800 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 450,407,520 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 50 years, 4 months, and 14 days

📅 You were born on a Sunday

🌒 The moon was in Waxing phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Generation X

🐅 Born in → The Year of the Tiger

😴 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: 6,133 days of your life or 16.8 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Blazing Saddles

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "The Streak" by Ray Stevens (source: Billboard Hot 100)

♊ May 26 zodiac sign is Gemini ?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 7 ?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 Mercury ☿

🪨 Your birthstone is Emerald ?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 May is Lily of the valley ?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 → Wednesday

🦅 Your spirit animal → Deer

⭐ Celebrities born on May 26th

1996

Austin Michael Luciano, American actor (Dante Carlino-Another World)

1911

Ben Alexander, American actor (Dragnet, All Quiet on the Western Front)

1917

Éva Szörényi, Hungarian actress and freedom activist for Hungary

1949

Dayle Haddon, Canadian model and actress (North Dallas Forty; Bedroom Eyes)

1979

Ashley Massaro, American model and professional wrestler

1944

Sam Posey, American auto racer (12 Hours of Sebring 1975; 24 Hours of Le Mans 1971 3rd) and TV commentator (ABC Sports)

1937

Monkey Punch [Kazuhiko Kato], Japanese manga cartoonist (Lupin III)

1914

Archie Duncan, Scottish actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes)

📜 Historical events on this date

1896

Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94).

1908

At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made, rights acquired by the United Kingdom.

1927

Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie.

1948

South Africa elects a nationalist government under D. F. Malan with an apartheid policy.

2004

The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

🎄 Holidays on May 26

National Blueberry Cheesecake Day

National Blueberry Cheesecake Day, celebrated every May 26th, is a fun holiday where people enjoy the delicious treat of blueberry cheesecake, a favorite dessert that has evolved from ancient Greece to become a global sensation with a special fruity twist.

National Paper Airplane Day

National Paper Airplane Day, celebrated every year on May 26th, is a fun holiday where people of all ages make and fly paper airplanes in competitions to see whose can fly the farthest or stay airborne the longest.

Sally Ride Day

Sally Ride Day, celebrated on May 26th, honors the first American female astronaut, Sally Ride, encouraging girls to explore space and science, and has been celebrated every year since 2003 on her birthday.

🏆 Sports in 1974

🏒 NHL

Philadelphia Flyers defeated Boston Bruins (4 - 2) to win the 1974 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings (24 - 7) to win Super Bowl VIII on January 13, 1974 in Houston, TX.

⚾ MLB

Oakland Athletics beat Los Angeles Dodgers (4 - 1) to win the 1974 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 1974 US Open Championships, Jimmy Connors defeated Ken Rosewall (6-1, 6-0, 6-1) to win the men's singles title. Billie Jean King beat Evonne Goolagong Cawley (3-6, 6-3, 7-5) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

May 26, 1974 can be written as V-XXVI-MCMLXXIV. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for May 26, 1974
→ Day Index: 146th day of 1974
→ Day of week: Sunday
→ Week Index: 4th Sunday of 1974
→ Next same calendar year: 2030
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 51 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 26,494,603 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 6,133 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 201 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 16.8 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 624 🌒
→ Life path number: 7
→ Zodiac sign: Gemini ♊
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Mercury
→ Birth flower: Lily of the valley
→ Birthstone: Emerald
→ Spirit Animal: Deer
→ Power Color: Yellow
→ President of United States:
→ World population 1974: 4,003,448,151 Source: un.org

The 1974 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2030. So, mark your calendars!

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