29 July 2017: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn fun facts about Saturday, July 29, 2017 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

Your next birthday is in:

You’ve taken nearly 54,573,120 breaths and experienced over 311,846,400 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 66,267,360 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 7 years, 4 months, and 28 days

📅 You were born on a Saturday

🌒 The moon was in Waxing phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Generation Alpha

🐓 Born in → The Year of the Rooster

😴 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: 902 days of your life or 2.47 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber (source: Billboard Hot 100)

The number 1 DJ in the world was Martin Garrix followed by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and Armin van Buuren according to DJ Mag.

♌ July 29 zodiac sign is Leo ?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 1 ?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 Sun ☉

🪨 Your birthstone is Ruby ?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 July is Larkspur ?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 → Sunday

🦅 Your spirit animal → Salmon

⭐ Celebrities born on July 29th

1971

Bryan Dattilo, American actor (California Dreaming, Days of Our Lives)

1949

Leslie Easterbrook, American actress (The Devil's Rejects, Police Academy)

1963

Alexandra Paul, American actress (Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet)

1980

Rachel Miner, American actress (Supernatural)

1959

Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor (Vaastav)

1974

Josh Radnor, American actor (How I Met Your Mother)

1966

Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voice actor

1924

Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (Point Blank, Dynasty, Batman)

At the age of 61, Bill Gates was the richest person in the world in 2017 with $86 billion fortune, followed by Warren Buffett with $75.6 billion, according to Forbes.

📜 Historical events on this date

1588

The Battle of Gravelines - Spanish Armada damaged and scattered by the English fleet.

1609

Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years.

1848

Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police.

1905

US Secretary of State William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines.

1921

Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

1949

Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin.

🎄 Holidays on July 29

National Chicken Wing Day

National Chicken Wing Day on July 29 is a fun holiday where people celebrate by eating lots of chicken wings, often with lots of ranch or blue cheese dip, making sure they have plenty of napkins and maybe some antacids ready for a day filled with delicious indulgence.

National Get Gnarly Day

National Get Gnarly Day, celebrated on the last Friday of July, is a fun holiday that encourages you to shake off old ways and try exciting, bold things, much like surfers using "gnarly" to describe awesome waves.

National Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day

National Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day is a quirky holiday on July 29th where people traditionally bought cheese to "sacrifice" it to mousetraps, aiming to catch mice, though it's now considered outdated and a bit silly since we have better ways to deal with pests and mice don't even like cheese that much.

🏆 Sports in 2017

🏒 NHL

Pittsburgh Penguins defeated Nashville Predators (4 - 2) to win the 2017 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

New England Patriots beat Atlanta Falcons (34 - 28) to win Super Bowl LI on February 5, 2017 in Houston, TX.

⚾ MLB

Houston Astros beat Los Angeles Dodgers (4 - 3) to win the 2017 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 2017 US Open Championships, Rafael Nadal defeated Kevin Anderson (6-3, 6-3, 6-4) to win the men's singles title. Sloane Stephens beat Madison Keys (6-3, 6-0) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

July 29, 2017 can be written as VII-XXIX-MMXVII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for July 29, 2017
→ Day Index: 210th day of 2017
→ Day of week: Saturday
→ Week Index: 5th Saturday of 2017
→ Next same calendar year: 2034
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 8 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 3,898,874 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 902 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 29 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 2.47 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 92 🌒
→ Life path number: 1
→ Zodiac sign: Leo ♌
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Sun
→ Birth flower: Larkspur
→ Birthstone: Ruby
→ Spirit Animal: Salmon
→ Power Color: Orange
→ President of United States:
→ World population 2017: 7,550,262,101 Source: un.org

The 2017 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2034. So, mark your calendars!

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