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This one’s for you, Ron . . .
To Ron in the U S of A.
Today you may quite go astray
With ice cream, cake, booze,
Pizza, burgers, you choose,
Best wishes on this your birthday.
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Birthday invitations are thought to date as far back as the 1st century AD!
Claudia Severa, wife of Roman commander Aelius Brocchus, sent out the first documented birthday invitation sometime during 100 AD. Known as the Vindolanda Tablets, these carbon-based ink slabs were made out of wooden leaf fragments, and served as a “save the date” reminder. It reads:
“Claudia Severa to her [sister] Lepidina, greetings. On the third day before the Ides of September, sister, for the day of the celebration of my birthday, I give you a warm invitation to make sure that you come to us, to make the day more enjoyable for me by your arrival. Give my greetings to your Cerealis. My Aelius and my little son send their greetings. I shall expect you, sister. Farewell, sister, my dearest soul, as I hope to prosper, and hail.”
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August is the most popular birthday month, accounting for about 9% of all the birthdays in the world
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An estimated 2 billion birthday cards are sent every year in the US alone.
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In the US birthday cards account for nearly 58% of all cards that are purchased.
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In 1989, the world's largest birthday cake was created to celebrate the 100th birthday of Fort Payne, Alabama.
A 100-year-old man sliced into the world's biggest cake with a sword to mark the 100th anniversary and members of the country band Alabama, who hail from Fort Payne, sang "Happy Birthday."
Gary Gengozian, editor and publisher of the local newspaper, The Times Journal, came up with the idea of baking the birthday cake because the EarthGrains Inc. bakery is the town's largest employer, with 750 workers.
The cake weighed 128,238 pounds, 8 oz. and used 16,209 pounds of icing!
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Marilyn Monroe's, “Happy Birthday, Mr President” tribute is the most famous birthday song rendition ever.
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She had to be sewn into the dress which, in 2016, was acquired by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! at auction for more than $5 million.
Kennedy responded at the end of the song: “I can now retire from politics after having had ‘Happy Birthday’ sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome way,”
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The world's most expensive birth certificate belongs to Paul McCartney, which was auctioned in March 1997 for $84,146 USD!
The auction was held in Tokyo and was of Beatles’ memorabilia by relatives of the Fab Four. The certificate, which records McCartney’s June 18, 1942, birth in Liverpool, England, had first been sold by McCartney’s stepmother after the death of his father.
Julian Lennon, son of slain Beatle John Lennon, bought his father’s black cape and an Afghan coat he wore on the cover of the “Magical Mystery Tour” album sleeve.
Bids for the Steinway piano on which Lennon composed the hit song “Imagine,” expected to fetch up to $500,000, barely reached half that figure. The piano owner, however, bought the run-down Liverpool house where Ringo Starr was born for $21,140.
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The Sultan of Brunei hosted the world's most expensive birthday party to celebrate his 50th year. The total cost was $27.2 million ($40m in today’s dollars) with three concerts featuring Michael Jackson costing $16 million of the total amount.
The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, and his second wife, Hajah Mariam, looking slightly solemn during the sultan's 50th birthday celebrations in Bandar Seri Begawan.
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Anne Frank's world famous diary was given to her as a present for her 13th birthday on June 12, 1942. She writes in it at the beginning: “I hope I shall be able to confide in you completely, as I have never been able to do in anyone before, and I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me.”
The first page of Anne Frank’s duary
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William Shakespeare died on his 52nd birthday: April 23, 1616.
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In the US more people are born on October 5 than any other day.
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Birthday cards which when opened, play a song or music, use more computing power than what what was used for sending astronauts to the moon.
NASA Mission Control Centre at the time of the 1969 moon landing
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It’s considered inviting bad luck to give a clock or watch as a birthday gift in China.
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The first birthday card was sent in England over one hundred years ago.
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Genesis 40:20-22:
20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
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Early European birthday parties were held because people thought they were vulnerable to demons on their birthdays. It was thought parties kept demons away.
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The Queen Mother received a 100th birthday card from the Queen, signed “Lilibet”.
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Two sisters, Patty and Mildred Hill, wrote the lyrics to ‘Happy Birthday to You’ in 1893 originally as ‘Good Morning to All’, for a kindergarten class of one of the sisters.
In 1988 Warner/ Chappell purchased the company with copyright to the ‘Happy Birthday’ song.
The song is in the public domain in the United States and the European Union. Warner Chappell Music had previously claimed copyright on the song to 2030 in the US and collected licensing fees for its use; in 2015 the copyright claim was declared invalid and Warner Chappell agreed to pay back $14 million in licensing fees.
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The Egyptians started the celebration of birthdays. The Greeks added moon shaped cakes to lunar goddess Artemis, with candles.
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A Golden Birthday happens only once in a person's lifetime. It happens when the person's age and the date of the day they were born is the same.
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Jehova’s Witnesses don’t celebrate birthdays - the only mentions of birthday celebrations in the Bible are those of the Pharaoh and of Herod, pagans.
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The Germans started birthday celebrations for children with "kinderfest" (child festival). These became the modern birthday parties for all.
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Noisemakers were used in Europe to scare away evil spirits and demons on birthdays.
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The first balloons are thought to originate from children's toys that were made out of animal intestines filled with water.
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Jesus' birthday is celebrated on December 25 to convert people from celebrating Saturnalia.
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