7 May 1971: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn cool facts about Friday, May 7, 1971 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

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You’ve taken nearly 394,894,080 breaths and experienced over 2,256,537,600 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 479,514,240 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 53 years, 7 months, and 15 days

📅 You were born on a Friday

🌔 The moon was in Waxing Gibbous phase on this day

⌛ Born into → Generation X

🐖 Born in → The Year of the Pig

😴 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: 6,529 days of your life or 17.89 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: Fiddler on the Roof

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night (source: Billboard Hot 100)

♉ May 7 zodiac sign is Taurus ?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 3 ?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 Venus ♀

🪨 Your birthstone is Emerald ?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 May is Lily of the valley ?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 → Friday

🦅 Your spirit animal → Beaver

⭐ Celebrities born on May 7th

1951

Robert Hegyes, American actor (Underground Aces; Welcome Back, Kotter - "Juan Epstein")

1911

Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director and producer (Godzilla)

1922

Darren McGavin [Richardson], American actor (Murphy Brown, The Night Stalker, A Christmas Story)

1959

Barbara Yung Mei-ling, Hong Kong actress

1928

John Ingle, American actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital)

1930

Horst Bienek, German writer and director (The First Polka)

1972

Asghar Farhadi, Iranian film director (The Salesman, A Separation)

1932

Hans Boskamp [Johannes Hendricus Gerardus Hoelscher], Dutch actor and producer (Oh My Papa)

📜 Historical events on this date

1429

English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army.

1912

Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, after established by Joseph Pulitzer.

1915

RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.

1939

Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.

1945

World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.

1952

The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.

2017

Emmanuel Macron wins France's presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen.

🎄 Holidays on May 7

Love's Baby Soft Day

Love's Baby Soft Day, celebrated on May 7th, is a throwback to when Love's Baby Soft was the must-have fragrance among young girls in the 1980s, marking a time before the beauty industry exploded with countless brands and influencers.

National Packaging Design Day

National Packaging Design Day, celebrated on May 7th, is when we give a big shoutout to the creative folks who make the boxes and wrappers of products look so cool, proving that sometimes it's totally okay to judge something by its cover!

National Paste Up Day

National Paste-Up Day, celebrated on May 7th, is a day to remember and appreciate the old-school art of manually putting together newspapers and magazines with glue and paper before computers took over in the 1990s.

🏆 Sports in 1971

🏒 NHL

Montreal Canadiens defeated Chicago Blackhawks (4 - 3) to win the 1971 Stanley Cup.

🏈 NFL

Baltimore Colts beat Dallas Cowboys (16 - 13) to win Super Bowl V on January 17, 1971 in Miami, FL.

⚾ MLB

Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles (4 - 3) to win the 1971 World Series.

🎾 Tennis

In the 1971 US Open Championships, Stan Smith defeated Jan Kodeš (3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6(5-3)) to win the men's singles title. Billie Jean King beat Rosemary Casals (6-4, 7-6) to become the Wimbledon women's singles champion.

May 7, 1971 can be written as V-VII-MCMLXXI. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for May 7, 1971
→ Day Index: 127th day of 1971
→ Day of week: Friday
→ Week Index: 1st Friday of 1971
→ Next same calendar year: 2027
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 54 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 28,206,802 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 6,529 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 214 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 17.89 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 664 🌔
→ Life path number: 3
→ Zodiac sign: Taurus ♉
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Venus
→ Birth flower: Lily of the valley
→ Birthstone: Emerald
→ Spirit Animal: Beaver
→ Power Color: Green
→ President of United States:
→ World population 1971: 3,775,790,900 Source: un.org

The 1971 calendar is unique, and the next time it will align with the Georgian calendar will be in 2027. So, mark your calendars!

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