18 March 1979: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn must-know facts about Sunday, March 18, 1979 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

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You’ve taken nearly 337,095,360 breaths and experienced over 1,926,259,200 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 409,330,080 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 45 years, 9 months, and 9 days

📅 You were born on a Sunday

🌖 The moon was in Waning Gibbous phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Generation X

🐐 Born in → The Year of the Goat

😴 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: 5,574 days of your life or 15.27 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Kramer vs. Kramer

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Tragedy" by The Bee Gees (source: Billboard Hot 100)

♓ March 18 zodiac sign is Pisces ?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 11 ?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 Neptune ♆

🪨 Your birthstone is Aquamarine ?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 March is Daffodil ?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 → Wolf

⭐ Celebrities born on March 18th

1941

Frank McRae, American actor (Dillinger; 1941; Rocky II; Love's Abiding Joy)

1911

(Lester) "Smiley" Burnette [Burnett], American country music performer, singer-songwriter, and actor

1951

(Patrick) "Paul" Barber, English stage and screen actor (The Full Monty; Only Fools and Horses - "Denzil")

1920

Eric Halsall, English TV presenter and sheepdog trial commentator (One Man and His Dog)

1940

Mark Medoff, American playwright, director, actor and professor (Children of a Lesser God)

1989

Lily Collins, British American actress (Mirror, Mirror)

1926

Peter Graves [Aurness], American actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17)

1938

Carl Gottlieb, American comedian and script writer (Ken Berry Wow Show, Jaws, The Jerk)

📜 Historical events on this date

1123

1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome, agreements of the Concordat of Worms ratified.

1314

Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake by King Philip IV of France.

1325

According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico.

1900

Japan uses its influence over Korea to deny Russia's efforts to obtain a naval station at Korean Port of Masampo, the lead up to the Russo-Japanese war.

1922

British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience.

1940

Benito Mussolini and Italy join Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain.

1965

Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

🎄 Holidays on March 18

Play the Recorder Day

Play the Recorder Day, celebrated every third Saturday in March, is a day to appreciate and play the recorder, a simple type of flute often introduced to kids in music classes, with special events organized by recorder enthusiasts.

Transit Driver Appreciation Day

Transit Driver Appreciation Day, celebrated on March 18, is a day to thank bus and train drivers for safely getting us where we need to go and making our lives easier.

Maple Syrup Saturday

Maple Syrup Saturday is a fun event where you can tap maple trees to make syrup, learn cool environmental facts, and enjoy activities at the Bubolz Nature Preserve every third Saturday in March.

🏆 Sports in 1979

🏒 NHL

Montreal Canadiens defeated New York Rangers (4 - 1) to win the 1979 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys (35 - 31) to win Super Bowl XIII on January 21, 1979 in Miami, FL.

⚾ MLB

Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles (4 - 3) to win the 1979 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 1979 US Open Championships, John McEnroe defeated Vitas Gerulaitis (7-5, 6-3, 6-3) to win the men's singles title. Tracy Austin beat Chris Evert (6-4, 6-3) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

March 18, 1979 can be written as III-XVIII-MCMLXXIX. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for March 18, 1979
→ Day Index: 77th day of 1979
→ Day of week: Sunday
→ Week Index: 3rd Sunday of 1979
→ Next same calendar year: 2029
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 46 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 24,078,834 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 5,574 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 183 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 15.27 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 567 🌖
→ Life path number: 11
→ Zodiac sign: Pisces ♓
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Neptune
→ Birth flower: Daffodil
→ Birthstone: Aquamarine
→ Spirit Animal: Wolf
→ Power Color: Light Green
→ President of United States:
→ World population 1979: 4,380,585,755 Source: un.org

The 1979 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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