20 December 1973: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn interesting facts about Thursday, December 20, 1973 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

Your next birthday is in:

You’ve taken nearly 375,661,440 breaths and experienced over 2,146,636,800 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 456,160,320 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 51 years, and 6 days

📅 You were born on a Thursday

🌘 The moon was in Waning Crescent phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Generation X

🐂 Born in → The Year of the Ox

😴 You’ve slept about 33% of your life! ?💤 Assuming you’ve been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth. Here is how much time you’ve spent sleeping so far: 6,211 days of your life or 17.02 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: The Sting

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "The Most Beautiful Girl" by Charlie Rich (source: Billboard Hot 100)

♐ December 20 zodiac sign is Sagittarius ?There are 12 zodiac signs, and each sign has its own strengths and weaknesses, its own specific traits, desires and attitude towards life and people. Astrology can give us a glimpse of a person’s basic characteristics, preferences, flaws and fears.

🔢 Your life path number is 7 ?Numerology links numbers to certain traits, much like how astrology connects planets and zodiac signs to characteristics. It’s used to understand personality, predict future happenings, and explore life’s meaning.

🪐 Your ruling planet is Jupiter ♃

🪨 Your birthstone is Tanzanite, Turquoise, Zircon and Topaz ?Each month is represented by a specific birthstone, symbolizing the birth month of an individual. The properties associated with that birthstone are believed to be “inherited” by the person born in that particular month.

🌷 The birth flower for December is Narcissus ?Each month has a flower that symbolizes the month of somebody’s birth. The characteristics that the flower has may be “inherited” by whoever is born in that certain month person.

📅 Your lucky day → Thursday

🦅 Your spirit animal → Owl

⭐ Celebrities born on December 20th

1915

Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer and humorist

1931

Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers, American actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, The Wild Wild West)

1921

George Roy Hill, American Academy Award-winning film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; The Sting; Slap Shot; A Little Romance; The World According to Garp)

1956

Blanche Baker, American actress, Carroll Baker's Daughter (French Postcard)

1963

Karen Moncrieff, American actress (Xtro 3, Days of Our Lives)

1935

Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla, Pakistani cricket batsman (4 Tests; 1 x 100; Warwickshire, Otago) and broadcaster (TVNZ)

1944

Jean Fergusson, English actress

1982

David Cook, American singer and American Idol winner

📜 Historical events on this date

1522

Suleiman the Magnificent accepts surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle in Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.

1606

Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown, Virginia.

1803

French flag lowered in New Orleans to mark the formal transfer of the Louisiana Purchase from France to USA for $27M.

1812

Grimm's Fairy Tales or "Children's and Household Tales" by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm is first published.

1917

Cheka formed - Soviet state security force and forerunner to the KGB, under Felix Dzerzhinsky after decree by Lenin.

1960

The National Liberation Front, better known as the Viet Cong, is officially formed in South Vietnam.

🎄 Holidays on December 20

Cathode-Ray Tube Day

Cathode-Ray Tube Day, celebrated on December 20th, is a day to appreciate the old-school technology behind our early TVs and computer monitors that used electron beams to create the images we see.

Mudd Day

Mudd Day on December 20 celebrates the birthday of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who got in trouble for treating John Wilkes Booth's injury after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

National Sangria Day

National Sangria Day, celebrated on December 20th, is a holiday dedicated to enjoying and appreciating sangria, a popular fruity and wine-based beverage originating from Spain.

🏆 Sports in 1973

🏒 NHL

Montreal Canadiens defeated Chicago Blackhawks (4 - 2) to win the 1973 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

Miami Dolphins beat Washington Redskins (14 - 7) to win Super Bowl VII on January 14, 1973 in Los Angeles, CA.

⚾ MLB

Oakland Athletics beat New York Mets (4 - 3) to win the 1973 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 1973 US Open Championships, John Newcombe defeated Jan Kodeš (6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3) to win the men's singles title. Margaret Court beat Evonne Goolagong Cawley (7-6, 5-7, 6-2) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

December 20, 1973 can be written as XII-XX-MCMLXXIII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for December 20, 1973
→ Day Index: 354th day of 1973
→ Day of week: Thursday
→ Week Index: 3rd Thursday of 1973
→ Next same calendar year: 2029
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 52 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 26,834,136 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 6,211 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 204 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 17.02 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 632 🌘
→ Life path number: 7
→ Zodiac sign: Sagittarius ♐
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Jupiter
→ Birth flower: Narcissus
→ Birthstone: Tanzanite, Turquoise, Zircon and Topaz
→ Spirit Animal: Owl
→ Power Color: Purple
→ President of United States:
→ World population 1973: 3,927,538,695 Source: un.org

The 1973 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2029. So, mark your calendars!

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