Did you know that July 17, 2008 was not only a very special day, but also a very unique one? Here are 14 funny facts about this unique day that will help you understand why it's so special. It's very important to pay attention to these facts because otherwise you might miss out on something truly amazing.
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If you forget what day you were born, we will tell you that you were born on Thursday, 17
Countdown to Your 18th Birthday
-- days-- hours-- minutes-- secondsThis year you are getting older. You have celebrated your 17th birthday on Thursday. How was your 17th 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 July 17
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 241 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 18 years old. There have been 6333 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 2111 days, which is equivalent to 5.78 years. You spent 34% of your life sleeping!
| Year | Day | Your Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Friday | 18 Years Old |
| 2027 | Saturday | 19 Years Old |
| 2028 | Monday | 20 Years Old |
| 2029 | Tuesday | 21 Years Old |
| 2030 | Wednesday | 22 Years Old |
| 2031 | Thursday | 23 Years Old |
| 2032 | Saturday | 24 Years Old |
| 2033 | Sunday | 25 Years Old |
| 2034 | Monday | 26 Years Old |
| 2035 | Tuesday | 27 Years Old |

According to western astrology, the zodiac sign of people born on July 17

Are you a people born on 17
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 July 17
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1949 | Geezer Butler, English bass player and songwriter |
| 1950 | Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011) |
| 1950 | Sadhan Chandra Majumder, Bangladeshi politician |
| 1950 | Tengku Sulaiman Shah, Malaysian corporate figure |
| 1951 | Andrew Robathan, English soldier and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces |
| 1951 | Lucie Arnaz, American actress and singer |
| 1951 | Mark Bowden, American journalist and author |
| 1952 | David Hasselhoff, American actor, singer, and producer |
| 1952 | Nicolette Larson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1997) |
| 1952 | Robert R. McCammon, American author |
Did you know that on July 17
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 521 | Magnus Felix Ennodius, Gallo-Roman bishop |
| 855 | Leo IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 790) |
| 952 | Wu Hanyue, Chinese noblewoman (b. 913) |
| 961 | Du, empress dowager of the Song Dynasty |
| 1070 | Baldwin VI, count of Flanders (b. 1030) |
| 1085 | Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer |
| 1119 | Baldwin VII, count of Flanders (b. 1093) |
| 1210 | Sverker II, king of Sweden (b. 1210) |
| 1304 | Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer (b. 1251) |
| 1399 | Jadwiga, queen of Poland (b. 1374) |
History has been made on your birthday. The following are important historical events that occurred on July 17
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1963 | Zakaria bin Muhammad Amin established MDTA Mahbatul Ulum, the successor of Al-Khairiyah Islamic boarding school, a first educational institution in Bengkalis which was closed during Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies |
| 1968 | Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President. |
| 1973 | King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, while having surgery in Italy, is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan. |
| 1975 | Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. |
| 1976 | East Timor is annexed and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia. |
| 1976 | The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid. |
| 1979 | Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States. |
| 1981 | A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200. |
| 1984 | The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21. |
| 1985 | Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany). |
In 2008, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Jacob is the most used. A total of 22,603 baby boys were named Jacob in 2008. The rest were named Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. While the popular baby girl name in 2008 was Emma. There were 18,817 baby girls named Emma that year. While the rest were named Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. 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 2008 there were 6,789,088,672 babies born into the world. If we take the mean value, we get 565,757,390. This shows that there were 565,757,390 babies born every month in 2008. It can also be concluded that there are 18,858,580 babies born every day and 13,097 babies born every minute which is mean that 219 babies born every second in the year 2008. Maybe one of them is you.
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