Birthday Facts

Birthday Calculator -- Try it!

A friend sent me the above website to try out. It's a fun way of learning about the little chunk of time around the time you were born. Have a go!

My birthday facts (my comments are in parenthesis and italics):

15 October 1970

Your date of conception was on or about 22 January 1970 which was a Thursday. You were born on a Thursday. The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2440874.5. The year 1970 was not a leap year. Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/6/1970 and ending 1/26/1971. You were born in the Chinese year of the Dog.

As of 9/14/2006 6:55:27 PM EDT: You are 35 years old. (And as if I don't feel old enough...)
You are 431 months old.
You are 1,874 weeks old.
You are 13,118 days old.
You are 314,850 hours old.
You are 18,891,055 minutes old.
You are 1,133,463,327 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Vanessa Marcil (1969)
Sarah Ferguson (1959)
Emeril Lagasse (1959)
Richard Carpenter (1946)
Jim Palmer (1945)
Penny Marshall (1942)
Linda Lavin (1937)
Lee Iacocca (1924)
Mario Puzo (1920)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917)
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908)

Top songs of 1970:
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
I'll Be There by Jackson Five
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head by B.J. Thomas
Close to You by Carpenters
My Sweet Lord by George Harrison
I Think I Love You by Partridge Family
Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Diana Ross
American Woman by Guess Who
War by Edwin Starr
Let It Be by Beatles

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 5.13424657534247 years old. (You're still chasing cats!) (Wooo-Hooo!)

There are 31 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 36 candles (or 2...a "3" and a "6"). Those 36 candles produce 36 BTUs, or 9,072 calories of heat (that's only 9.0720 food calories!). You can boil 4.11 US ounces of water with that many candles.

In 1970, there were approximately 3.7 million births in the U.S. In 1970, the U.S. population was approximately 203,302,031 people, 57.4 persons per square mile. In 1970, in the U.S. there were approximately 2,158,802 marriages (10.6%) and 708,000 divorces (3.5%). In 1970, in the U.S. there were approximately 1,921,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000)

Your birth tree is Maple, which symbolizes "Independence of Mind." Personality traits: No ordinary person, full imagination and originality, shy and reserved, ambitious, proud, self-respect, hungers for new experiences, sometimes nervous, many complexes, good memory, learns easily, complicated love life, wants to impress.

The moon's phase on the day you were born was full. (That explains A LOT.)