Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Saturday, April 9, 1977:
🕰️ 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 › Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
🎮 Number one video game › Zork
🎵 Number one song › "Dancing Queen" by ABBA
🐍 Chinese Zodiac › Serpent
☀️ 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 › $0.62
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,229,201,257 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 27,833,600,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 425,854,080 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 2,004,019,200 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,922,528,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 350,703,360 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on December 16, 2008.
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
1932
Cheetah [Cheeta, Cheta, Chita], chimpanzee actor (1930s Tarzan franchise), is born
1933
Gian Maria Volontè, Italian actor (Fistful of Dollars)
1985
Yamashita Tomohisa, Japanese singer and actor
1979
Keith Nobbs, American actor (Phone Booth)
1975
David Gordon Green, American filmmaker (George Washington)
1941
Chu Song-woong, South Korean stage actor
1950
Nathan Cook, American actor (Milton-White Shadow, Billy-Hotel)
1986
Leighton Meester, American actress (Gossip Girl-Blair Waldorf)
Holidays on Saturday, April 9th
National Name Yourself Day
National Name Yourself Day, celebrated on April 9, encourages people to choose a new name for a day, exploring the idea that our names can influence our personality and how others perceive us, inspired by the "Dorian Gray effect" from Oscar Wilde's novel where a character's appearance changes based on his actions and morality.
National Cherish an Antique Day
National Cherish an Antique Day, celebrated on April 9th, is a day to appreciate and learn from old objects in our homes that have historical and cultural importance, reminding us of their stories and value in today's world.
Orthodox Palm Sunday
Orthodox Palm Sunday is a special day that celebrates when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem and people welcomed him by laying palm branches on the ground, marking the start of the week leading up to Easter.
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.
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.
