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Each year, she celebrates her actual birthday on 21 April and her official birthday on a Saturday in June.
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The Queen's official birthday is marked with the Trooping the Colour parade, also known as The Queen's Birthday Parade, which is due to take place on 15 June this year.
BBC: Queen to celebrate 87th birthday with family
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Turin identifies the "official birthday of fragrance chemistry" as the discovery of the synthetic simulation of coumarin, an essential component of the tonka bean, prized for its sweet, nutty and smoky fragrance, in 1868.
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July 11 was the official 85th birthday of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, and to celebrate they were giving out free 7.11-ounce Slurpees.
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In A.D. 350, Pope Julius I proclaimed December 25 as the official day to celebrate the birthday of Christ, and the date has remained steadfast ever since.
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It is a quirk of the Church's practice that Cardinal O'Brien had already tendered his resignation, as he approached his 75th birthday, the official retirement age for bishops.
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Her conversation with him on his 90th birthday was the last official interview he gave.
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Monday is the official King holiday, marking the slain civil rights leader's birthday.
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This birthday party is available for every person in the world to view on the official Google homepage in the form of a Google doodle, one of the little embellishments to the Google logo that the creative team draws up on a regular basis to illustrate the otherwise sparse website.
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