Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Tuesday, April 9, 1974:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Thursday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Blazing Saddles
🎮 Number one video game › Maze War
🎵 Number one song › "Bennie And The Jets" by Elton John
🐅 Chinese Zodiac › Tiger
☀️ Sun Sign › Aries
🔥 Zodiac Element › Fire
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Cardinal
🪐 Ruling Planet › Mars ♂
🐼 Spirit Animal › Hawk
🔢 Life Path Number › 7
🌼 Birth flower › Sweet Pea/Daisy
🪨 Birthstone › Diamond
📅 Lucky day › Tuesday ⬤Power Color › Red
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.53
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,003,448,151 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 29,585,600,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 452,659,680 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 2,130,163,200 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 3,106,488,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 372,778,560 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on December 16, 2005.
What happened on my birthday
1483
Edward V (aged 12) succeeds his father Edward IV as king of England. He is never crowned, and disappears presumed murdered, after incarceration in the Tower of London with his younger brother Richard (the "Princes in the Tower").
1731
British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean, later catalyst for war between Britain & Spain.
1768
John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies.
1865
Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S Grant (US Civil War).
1869
Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada.
1992
John Major elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his Conservative Party wins the most votes in British electoral history.
2003
Baghdad falls to U.S. forces ending the invasion of Iraqi but resulting in widespread looting.
Famous people with my birthday
1971
Austin Peck, American actor (Austin Reed-Days of Our Lives)
1985
Yamashita Tomohisa, Japanese singer and actor
1941
Chu Song-woong, South Korean stage actor
1984
Linda Chung, Chinese-Canadian actress and singer
1936
Jerzy Maksymiuk, Polish pianist, composer and conductor (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, 1983-93)
1963
Joe Scarborough, American television personality
1942
(Andre) Brandon De Wilde, American stage and screen actor (The Member of the Wedding; Shane; Jamie; Hud)
1970
Josh Todd [Gruber], American musician, singer (Buckcherry), and actor
Holidays on Tuesday, April 9th
National Baked Ham with Pineapple Day
National Baked Ham with Pineapple Day, celebrated on April 9 alongside Easter, is a day to enjoy a delicious meal of roasted ham topped with pineapple, taking advantage of the season's best pineapples and Easter's tradition of serving ham.
National Mature Women's Day
National Mature Women's Day, celebrated on April 9th, is a special day to honor and celebrate the older, wise, and confident women in our lives, encouraging them to embrace self-love and a positive view on aging.
National Gin and Tonic Day
National Gin and Tonic Day, celebrated every April 9th, is a day to appreciate the iconic drink combination of gin and tonic water, much like how we enjoy other perfect pairings like peanut butter and jelly.
Appomattox Day
Appomattox Day, observed every April 9th in the United States, marks the end of the Civil War in 1865 when General Lee surrendered to General Grant, effectively ending the conflict.
National Chinese Almond Cookie Day
National Chinese Almond Cookie Day, celebrated on April 9, is a day to enjoy crunchy, almond-flavored cookies that are believed to bring good luck, often made with special designs and traditionally associated with Chinese New Year.
