Yesterday's Horoscope for Libra
May 17, 2026
You may want to have fun and lots of it just now, but this is the pendulum swinging to the opposite side in the extreme. There's no problem with pleasure but when the desire becomes too strong, then the obsessive side of your star sign can override your better sensibilities. Again, the age old saying, everything in moderation, needs to be adhered to.
Power Numbers: 27, 26, 25, 48, 31, 40
Born Today: Edward Jenner, Dennis Hopper, Sugar Ray Leonard, Nine Inch Nails, Andrea Corr
Quick Quote: "Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
-- Voltaire
Random Fact: A fetus starts to develop fingerprints at the age of eight weeks.
Today in History:
1973: Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
1909: White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
1756: Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French and Indian War)
1968: U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1983: Stanley Cup: New York Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games
1989: Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" auctioned for $825M
1630: Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
1961: Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1986: 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
1631: Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
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