Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Friday, November 17, 1972:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Tuesday
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🍿 Number one movie › The Godfather
🎮 Number one video game › Pong
🎵 Number one song › "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash
🐀 Chinese Zodiac › Rat
☀️ Sun Sign › Scorpio
🌊 Zodiac Element › Water
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Fixed
🪐 Ruling Planet › Pluto ♇
🐼 Spirit Animal › Snake
🔢 Life Path Number › 11
🌼 Birth flower › Chrysanthemum
🪨 Birthstone › Topaz and Citrine
📅 Lucky day › Tuesday ⬤Power Color › Black
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.36
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 3,851,545,181 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 30,448,000,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 465,854,400 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 2,192,256,000 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 3,197,040,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 383,644,800 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on July 26, 2004.
What happened on my birthday
1558
Elizabeth I aged 25 ascends English throne upon death of her half sister Queen "Bloody" Mary.
1800
Congress holds its 1st session in Washington D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building.
1831
Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia.
1855
David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe.
1869
Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas.
1922
The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed VI is expelled to Malta on British warship.
1970
Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
Famous people with my birthday
1972
Leonard Roberts, American actor
1986
Aaron Finch, Australian cricket batsman (5 Tests, 2 x 50; captain Men's T20 World Cup 2021; record score T20I 172 2018; Victoria) and broadcaster (Fox Sports, Network 7)
1957
Debbie Thrower, British journalist and BBC News presenter
1955
Yolanda King, actress (Fluke, Ghosts of Mississippi)
1927
Fenella Fielding, English actress (Carry On films)
1967
Sheila Lussier, actress (Reform School, My Chauffeur)
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