26Eeyore's Birthday Party
There is a festival called Eeyore's Birthday Party, which is celebrated in honor of the character of the same name from Winnie the Pooh, who believes that everyone has forgotten his birthday.
27. Composer Arnold Schoenberg had a morbid fear of the number 13. On his 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote him a letter of warning reading only “7 + 6 = 13”, causing him to fall into a deep depression and illness, from which he died on Friday the 13th.
28. Snooty was the world’s oldest captive manatee that used to live at the South Florida Aquarium for almost his whole life until his death in 2017. On his birthday, his care takers used to give him a cake made of fruit and vegetables while the visitors sang him Happy Birthday.
29. On Donald Ducks' 50th birthday, Walt Disney World hatched 50 Peking ducks in front of Donald Duck, so they would think he is their "mother" and follow him around for a birthday celebration parade.
30. Babe Ruth believed that his birthday was February 7, 1894. However, when he applied for a passport he looked up his birth certificate and found his birthday listed as February 6, 1895, nearly a full year later than he thought.
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31Birthday cakes
Putting candles on birthday cakes dates back to the Ancient Greeks, who often burned candles as offerings to their many Gods and Goddesses. It was their way to pay tribute to the Greek moon goddess, Artemis. Round cakes symbolized the moon. Candles were added to represent the reflected moonlight.
32. Stephen Hawking was born (January 8, 1942) on the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei.
33. Maroon 5 was banned from China after keyboardist Jesse Carmichael wished the Dalai Lama of Tibet a happy birthday on Twitter.
34. Lombardi's Pizza, the first pizzeria in the US opened in 1905 and still runs to this day. It even offered $0.05 Pizzas for its 100th Birthday.
35. American actress Doris Day believed she was born in 1924 until her 95th birthday when the Associated Press found a birth certificate with the year 1922 on it.
36Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong changed his birthday to July 4th, 1900 in order to make himself appear more patriotic to his fans.
37. On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank received an autograph book from her father for her 13th birthday. That book became her diary.
38. Two-thirds of the way between your 31st and 32nd birthdays, you will turn one billion seconds old.
39. The famous photo of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue was taken on his 72nd birthday when he was asked by a photographer to smile for the camera. After smiling a dozen times for previous photos that day, he playfully stuck out his tongue instead.
40. Richard Hammond left his Porsche 911 in traffic and ran 16 miles for his daughter's 4th birthday.
