Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Sunday, July 1, 1979:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Wednesday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Kramer vs. Kramer
🎮 Number one video game › Asteroids
🎵 Number one song › "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward
🐐 Chinese Zodiac › Goat
☀️ Sun Sign › Cancer
🌊 Zodiac Element › Water
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Cardinal
🪐 Ruling Planet › Moon ☽
🐼 Spirit Animal › Woodpecker
🔢 Life Path Number › 7
🌼 Birth flower › Larkspur
🪨 Birthstone › Ruby
📅 Lucky day › Monday ⬤Power Color › Silver
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.86
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,380,585,755 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,580,800,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 406,686,240 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,913,817,600 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,790,984,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 334,918,080 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on March 9, 2011.
What happened on my birthday
1689
Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu, Japan.
1858
The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1863
Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lee's northward advance halted.
1867
The Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving as the first Prime Minister.
1916
First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men (WWI).
1921
The Communist Party of China is founded and Chen Duxiu elected its leader.
1941
Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial.
1997
United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People's Republic of China.
Famous people with my birthday
1951
Daryl Anderson, American actor (Animal-Lou Grant)
1962
Andre Braugher, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Homicide: Life on the Street; Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1966
Patrick McEnroe, American tennis player (French Open doubles & Tour Finals doubles 1989), coach (US Davis Cup 2007) and broadcaster (ESPN, CNN, CBS)
1971
Julianne Nicholson, American actress (Megan Wheeler-Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
1939
Frank Parker, American actor (Days of our Lives, Never Too Young)
1972
Corey Hirsch, Canadian ice hockey goalie (Olympic silver 1994; Vancouver Canucks) and broadcaster (Sportsnet, Vancouver Canucks radio)
1934
Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter
1930
Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (Lion of the Dessert)
Holidays on Sunday, July 1st
National Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day
National Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day, celebrated every July 1st, is a fun holiday where you ditch the usual chocolate and vanilla to try wild and unique ice cream flavors, adding an adventurous twist to your summer treat.
International Cherry Pit Spitting Day
International Cherry Pit Spitting Day is a fun holiday on the first Saturday of July where people gather to see who can spit cherry pits the farthest.
National Baby-Led Weaning Day
National Baby-Led Weaning Day, celebrated on July 1st, is about letting babies learn to eat solid foods by themselves, encouraging better motor skills and eating habits, based on the ideas of Dr. Gill Rapley.
National U.S. Postage Stamp Day
National U.S. Postage Stamp Day, celebrated on July 1st, marks the anniversary of when postage stamps were first introduced in 1847, reminding us to appreciate the easy way we can send mail today.
Early Bird Day
Early Bird Day, on July 1st, is when people wake up super early to score the best deals and special offers at stores and restaurants, because the early bird catches the worm!
