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Countdown to Your 48th Birthday
-- days-- hours-- minutes-- secondsThis year you are getting older. You have celebrated your 47th birthday on Sunday. How was your 47th birthday? Is it fun? We wish you good memories on your birthday. Celebrating a festive birthday party with family and friends, getting gifts and surprises will certainly make you happier.
Did you know that people born on May 18
We have calculated your birthday for the next 10 years. It's going to be a fun time to celebrate with family and friends. You'll get lots of gifts, too! There are 145 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 48 years old. There have been 17387 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 5796 days, which is equivalent to 15.88 years. You spent 33.79% of your life sleeping!
| Year | Day | Your Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Monday | 48 Years Old |
| 2027 | Tuesday | 49 Years Old |
| 2028 | Thursday | 50 Years Old |
| 2029 | Friday | 51 Years Old |
| 2030 | Saturday | 52 Years Old |
| 2031 | Sunday | 53 Years Old |
| 2032 | Tuesday | 54 Years Old |
| 2033 | Wednesday | 55 Years Old |
| 2034 | Thursday | 56 Years Old |
| 2035 | Friday | 57 Years Old |

According to western astrology, the zodiac sign of people born on May 18

If you were born on May 18, 1978, your birthstone is the emerald. Emerald birthstone has been a favorite of Cleopatra and King Solomon. It's believed to give both men control over the world, as well as the ability to see into the future. Some also claimed it could cure malaria and cholera, as well as protect against evil spells.
When you were born, there were many famous people in history who were born on the same day as you but in different years. The following are famous people in history who commemorate birthdays on May 18
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1048 | Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet (d. 1131) |
| 1186 | Konstantin of Rostov (d. 1218) |
| 1450 | Piero Soderini, Italian politician and diplomat (d. 1513) |
| 1537 | Guido Luca Ferrero, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1585) |
| 1631 | Stanislaus Papczyński, Polish priest and saint (d. 1701) |
| 1662 | George Smalridge, English bishop (d. 1719) |
| 1692 | (O.S.) Joseph Butler, English bishop, theologian, and apologist (d. 1752) |
| 1711 | Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1787) |
| 1777 | John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (d. 1852) |
| 1778 | Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Austria (d. 1854) |
Did you know that on May 18
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883) |
| 1947 | Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883) |
| 1955 | Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875) |
| 1956 | Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895) |
| 1958 | Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (b. 1881) |
| 1963 | Ernie Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939) |
| 1968 | Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897) |
| 1971 | Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908) |
| 1973 | Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880) |
| 1974 | Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885) |
History has been made on your birthday. The following are important historical events that occurred on May 18
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1969 | Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched. |
| 1973 | Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board. |
| 1974 | Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so. |
| 1977 | Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election, with Menachem Begin, its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. |
| 1980 | Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage. |
| 1980 | Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms. |
| 1990 | In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph). |
| 1991 | Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland. |
| 1993 | Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators. |
| 1994 | Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern. |
In 1978, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Michael is the most used. A total of 67,157 baby boys were named Michael in 1978. The rest were named Jason, Christopher, David and James. While the popular baby girl name in 1978 was Jennifer. There were 56,319 baby girls named Jennifer that year. While the rest were named Melissa, Jessica, Amy and Heather. These statistics are obtained from ssa.gov which compiles popular baby names of the last century in United States.
Based on World Population Data, in 1978 there were 4,304,533,599 babies born into the world. If we take the mean value, we get 358,711,134. This shows that there were 358,711,134 babies born every month in 1978. It can also be concluded that there are 11,957,038 babies born every day and 8,304 babies born every minute which is mean that 139 babies born every second in the year 1978. Maybe one of them is you.
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