Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Saturday, July 17, 1971:
🕰️ 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 › Fiddler on the Roof
🎮 Number one video game › The Oregon Trail
🎵 Number one song › "It's Too Late" by Carole King
🐖 Chinese Zodiac › Pig
☀️ Sun Sign › Cancer
🌊 Zodiac Element › Water
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Cardinal
🪐 Ruling Planet › Moon ☽
🐼 Spirit Animal › Woodpecker
🔢 Life Path Number › 6
🌼 Birth flower › Larkspur
🪨 Birthstone › Ruby
📅 Lucky day › Monday ⬤Power Color › Silver
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.36
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 3,775,790,900 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 31,233,600,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 477,874,080 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 2,248,819,200 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 3,279,528,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 393,543,360 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on March 25, 2003.
What happened on my birthday
180
6 inhabitants of Carthage, North Africa executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in this part of the world.
1203
Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade, Crusaders aboad a Venetian fleet attack the city.
1762
Catherine II becomes tsarina of Russia following the murder of Peter III.
1918
The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia.
1936
Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.
Lucille Benson, American actress (Halloween II; 194;1 Bosom Buddies)
1933
Bruce Wells, English boxer (European amateur light middleweight champion 1953) and actor (Dr. Who 1965-73)
1956
Robert Romanus, American actor
1946
Alun Armstrong, English actor (New Tricks)
1926
Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
1979
Mike Vogel, American actor (Under the Dome)
Holidays on Saturday, July 17th
National Lottery Day
National Lottery Day, celebrated on July 17th, is about the thrill and hope of winning big money by playing lottery games, making it a day when people dream about hitting the jackpot and imagining what they'd do with their winnings.
National Get Out of the Dog House Day
National Get Out of the Dog House Day is a day when people try to make things right with someone they've upset, getting themselves out of trouble or making up for a mistake.
National Peach Ice Cream Day
National Peach Ice Cream Day, celebrated on July 17th, is a fun holiday where everyone enjoys eating delicious peach-flavored ice cream to beat the summer heat.
Wrong Way Corrigan Day
Wrong Way Corrigan Day celebrates the adventurous pilot who, on July 17, famously flew from New York to Ireland instead of California, claiming he went the "wrong way" by mistake.
National Tattoo Day
National Tattoo Day, celebrated on July 17, is a day to explore and appreciate the art and cultural significance of tattoos, a form of body art created by inserting ink into the skin to make permanent designs.
