One of my friends happens to have a birthday on 21st june. It happens to be the longest day in the northern hemisphere. In marathi it is called "कर्कदिन", I was looking for a name in english, it eluded me somehow. I couldn't find.
Wikipedia is a great place, it has got a page for all the days in a year, so out of curiosity, I happened to check the facts about my birthday.
Some interesting facts that I learnt..
I share my birthday with Charles Chaplin and Lara dutta..
3000 years before I was born, Odyssus returned to Ithaca after the "Trojan War"
34 years before I was born, the psychedelic effects of LSD were discovered on my birthday. Not bad on that one! :-)
Unfortunately, this is the day on which virginia tech massacres took place in 2007. Bad :-((
Interestingly the term "Cold War" was coined by Bernand Baruch thirty years before I was born! :-) awesome!!
There are some other facts as well : like "Launch of Apollo 16", "Chicago bulls" record breaking 70th victory, "syria gained independence"
Wikipedia does not mention one thing though "Abhijit Gadgil" was born on this day !!! Too Baddd...
Quite an eventfull day so to speak! :-)
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