22 October 1973: Top 20 Facts You Need To Know

Learn interesting facts about Monday, October 22, 1973 that no one tells you about. ⬇️

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You’ve taken nearly 376,850,880 breaths and experienced over 2,153,433,600 heartbeats since the day you were born. Your eyes have blinked over 457,604,640 times, quietly showing just how amazing our bodies are. Pretty cool, right?

⏳ You have been alive for: 51 years, 2 months, and 4 days

📅 You were born on a Monday

🌘 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: 6,231 days of your life or 17.07 years.

🍿 #1 movie was: The Sting

🎶 #1 song on your birthday: "Midnight Train To Georgia" by Gladys Knight and The Pips (source: Billboard Hot 100)

♎ October 22 zodiac sign is Libra ?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 Venus ♀

🪨 Your birthstone is Opal and Tourmaline ?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 October is Marigold ?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 → Raven

⭐ Celebrities born on October 22nd

1905

Joseph Kosma [József Kozma], Hungarian-French film composer (Les Enfants du Paradis; The Grand Illusion)

1910

Tamara Desni [Brodsky], German-born British actress (The Green Finger, Hell's Cargo)

1903

Curly Howard [Jerome Lester Horwitz], American vaudevillian actor and comedian (The Three Stooges)

1939

Tony Roberts, actor (Annie Hall, Edge of Night, Lucie Arnaz Show)

1912

Frances Drake [Dean], American actress (Mad Love, The Invisible Ray)

1947

Lee Meredith [Judith Lee Sauls], River Edge NJ, actress (Producers)

1876

[Joseph Jacinto] Jo Mora, Uruguayan-born American cartoonist, cowboy and illustrator who lived with the Hopi tribe and wrote extensively of his experiences

1969

Spike Jonze [Adam Spiegel], American director and film producer (Her, Three Kings, Where the Wild Things Are)

📜 Historical events on this date

1633

Battle of Liaoluo Bay: Dutch East India Company defeated by Chinese Ming naval forces in southern Fujian sea.

1721

Tsar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator".

1879

Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb.

1884

International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian.

1907

Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock leads to US wide run on banks.

1962

Cuban missile crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis.

🎄 Holidays on October 22

National Make a Dog's Day

National Make a Dog's Day on October 22 is a special day to spoil dogs, show them how much we love them, and encourage people to adopt dogs from shelters to give them a happy life.

Smart is Cool Day

Smart is Cool Day, celebrated on October 22, is all about recognizing that being intelligent is awesome and something to be proud of, showing that smart people are not just nerdy side characters but interesting and cool individuals with their own unique stories.

National Kristopher NaJee Roebuck Day

National Kristopher NaJee Roebuck Day, celebrated on October 22, is a day to remember Kristopher Roebuck, who was tragically killed by gun violence, and to raise awareness about the need to stop gun violence for a peaceful future.

🏆 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.

October 22, 1973 can be written as X-XXII-MCMLXXIII. This is the Western date style written using Roman numerals.

🔦 Facts Summary for October 22, 1973
→ Day Index: 295th day of 1973
→ Day of week: Monday
→ Week Index: 4th Monday of 1973
→ Next same calendar year: 2029
→ Days until next birthday:
→ Age on next birthday: 52 years old
→ Days since birth:
→ You are: 26,919,160 minutes old
→ Days spent sleeping: 6,231 days
→ Months spent sleeping: 205 months
→ Years spent sleeping: 17.07 years
→ Part of life spent sleeping: 33%
→ Full moons since birth: 634 🌘
→ Life path number: 7
→ Zodiac sign: Libra ♎
→ Zodiac ruling planet: Venus
→ Birth flower: Marigold
→ Birthstone: Opal and Tourmaline
→ Spirit Animal: Raven
→ Power Color: Pink
→ 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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