Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Monday, April 17, 1978:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Friday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Grease
🎮 Number one video game › Space Invaders
🎵 Number one song › "Night Fever" by The Bee Gees
🐎 Chinese Zodiac › Horse
☀️ Sun Sign › Aries
🔥 Zodiac Element › Fire
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Cardinal
🪐 Ruling Planet › Mars ♂
🐼 Spirit Animal › Hawk
🔢 Life Path Number › 1
🌼 Birth flower › Sweet Pea/Daisy
🪨 Birthstone › Diamond
📅 Lucky day › Tuesday ⬤Power Color › Red
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.63
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 27,233,600,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 416,674,080 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,960,819,200 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,859,528,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 343,143,360 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on December 24, 2009.
What happened on my birthday
1387
Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" characters begin their pilgrimage to Canterbury (according to scholars).
1492
Christopher Columbus signs a contract with the Spanish monarchs to find the "Indies" with the stated goal of converting people to Catholicism. This promises him 10% of all riches found, and the governorship of any lands encountered.
1895
Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
1961
1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
1982
Proclamation of the Constitution Act by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Famous people with my birthday
1996
Dee Dee Davis, American actress
1957
Byron Cherry, American actor (Coy-Dukes of Hazzard)
1959
(Shaun) "Sean" Bean, English actor (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Game of Thrones)
1963
Joel Murray, American actor (Mad Men)
1951
Olivia Hussey, Argentine-British actress (Romeo & Juliet, Death on Nile)
1995
Paulie Litt, American actor
1979
Siddharth Narayan, Indian film actor
1971
Claire Sweeney, British stage and screen actress (Brookside)
Holidays on Monday, April 17th
Orthodox Easter Monday
Orthodox Easter Monday, also called "Bright Monday" or "Monday of Renewal," is celebrated by Orthodox Christians as a continuation of Easter, marking Jesus Christ's resurrection, and it falls on a different date than Catholic Easter due to different calendars used.
Malbec World Day
Malbec World Day is celebrated on April 17th each year to honor the Malbec grape, famous for making wine, and marks the day Argentina started focusing on improving its wine industry back in 1853.
Go Fly a Kite Day
"Go Fly a Kite Day," celebrated every third Sunday in April, encourages people to enjoy flying kites, transforming the old dismissive phrase into a fun, outdoor activity.
Blah Blah Blah Day
Blah Blah Blah Day, celebrated every April 17th, is all about finally doing those things people keep nagging you about, like starting your New Year's resolutions, and comes from a term first used in 1918 to describe pointless chatter.
No Limits for Deaf Children Day
"No Limits for Deaf Children Day, celebrated every May 17th, is a special day to show that deaf kids can achieve anything with the right support, shining a light on their talents and potential."
