I'm 73 today. It is the Third Day before the Nones of July, and the 187th day of the year.
I share my birthday with the date of death of Ísleifur Gissurarson, First Bishop in Iceland (1080), the day Isaac Newton published The Principia (1687), the treason that gave birth to the Republic of Venezuela (1811), the first Cook's Tour in history (1841), the birth of the great Imperialist, Cecil Rhodes (1853), and the date of the introduction of Spam 'luncheon meat' (1937).
And, to celebrate, here's a bit of irrelevant astronomical trivia I ran across:
On my 4810th birthday, in AD 6757, there is anticipated to be a simultaneous solar eclipse and transit of Mercury, the first such simultaneous eclipse and planetary transit in over 13,000 years.
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