A diamond birthday is when the last 2 digits of your birth year are your age. So, let's say you were born in 1989. Your diamond birthday would be on the day you turn 89.
You may also see some people talking about Diamond Birthdays, which is when the last two digits of your birth year match your age. For example, if you were born in 1981, your Diamond Birthday would be when you turn 81.
noun. the celebration of a 60th, or occasionally 75th, anniversary.
Traditional anniversary gifts include: 1st – Paper, 5th – Wood, 10th – Tin, 15th – Crystal, 20th – China, 25th – Silver, 40th – Ruby, 50th – Gold, 60th and 75th – Diamond.
A platinum birthday is celebrated when you turn the age that matches the last two numbers of your birth year. Born in 1982? You'll celebrate yours when you turn 82.
Golden jubilee, for a 50th anniversary. Diamond jubilee, for a 60th or 75th anniversary. Sapphire jubilee, for a 65th anniversary. Platinum jubilee, for a 70th anniversary.
Your golden birthday is the year you turn the same age as your birthday – for example, turning 25 on the 25th, or 31 on the 31st. If you've ever wondered where the tradition comes from, you're not alone. Joan Bramsch, a midwestern author, started celebrating her five children's golden birthdays in the 1950s.
A 75-year celebration is often called a Diamond Jubilee. A 100-year celebration is known as a centennial, while a 150-year celebration is called a sesquicentennial.
Diamonds were formed long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and some are even older than the stars. The youngest diamond is nearly a billion years old.
The naming of these celebrations follows the traditions of wedding anniversaries: 25 years is called a Silver Jubilee, 50 years a Golden Jubilee, 60 years a Diamond Jubilee, and 70 years a Platinum Jubilee.
So what is a Champagne birthday, and why is it special? A Champagne birthday is a birthday where you turn the same age as the day you were born on. For example, a birthday where you turn 25 on the 25th of a month. Everyone has one; however, they can only occur up to the age of 31 on the 31st.
The King's Official Birthday is the selected day in most Commonwealth realms on which the birthday of the monarch is officially celebrated in those countries. It does not necessarily correspond to the date of the monarch's actual birth.
It's often referred to as a person's diamond jubilee or the start of their golden years. In fact, in Chinese culture, turning 60 marks five full cycles through the Chinese zodiac, bringing the guest of honor back to their birth zodiac, symbolically beginning a new life cycle.
What is a Golden Birthday? Your golden birthday is when the date of your birth coincides with your age. For example, if you were born on October 8, your golden birthday took place when you turned 8. If you were born on December 21, your golden birthday took place when you turned 21.
Currently two diamond anniversaries are celebrated – one at 60 and one at 75 years. The 75th anniversary is the original diamond anniversary and the 60th was added when Queen Victoria (English Empire Monarch) celebrated her Diamond Jubilee on her 60th anniversary of accession to the throne in 1897.
MYTH: Diamonds are Rare
All gem-quality materials are rare. They compose just a tiny fraction of the Earth. However, diamonds actually number among the most common gems.
The oldest dated examples, the 3.5–3.3 billion-year-old Diavik and Ekati diamonds, were forming prior to the rise of oxygen in the earth's atmosphere (2.5 to 2.3 billion years ago).
Flawless and Internally Flawless diamonds are rare and very expensive. Flawless diamonds have no inclusions and no blemishes on the surface. Internally Flawless diamonds have no inclusions, but can have small blemishes on the surface, which can be polished away.
Other forms: centenaries. A centenary is the hundredth anniversary of some event. When your great grandfather turns 100, his birthday party will be the centenary of his birth. If your town is celebrating its centenary, that means it's exactly 100 years old.
75 years of life is a milestone birthday, often referred to as the platinum celebration. This is a birthday that family and friends celebrate with love, as well as traditional gifts. The gift for this birthday has to be special, because the moment itself is special.
Over the course of history, silver has come to be known as the classic gift for a 25th celebration. Silver birthdays are when either a man or woman turns 25 years old. Silver can be used to decorate or theme the birthday celebrations of a 25-year-old.
If you're in Australia and you're working your golden birthday out you would write 6/3, sixth-day, third month. This makes your golden birthday your 63rd. In the U.S however you'd write 3/6, the third-month, sixth day, so you would celebrate your golden birthday 27 years earlier, at 36.
This means that people who have a double champagne birthday get to celebrate their birthday twice, once on their actual birthday and once on New Year's Eve. This can be a very special and fun birthday for people who love to celebrate.