An anniversary is a day which celebrates a past event which has occurred on the same date of the year some years ago. Anniversaries are generally important very important days and are celebrated in a fun-filled manner. Let’s read about some of the most anniversaries which the world celebrated last year.
1. Dorm Room Fund 1 Year Anniversary
Dorm room fund is a student-run venture fund that invests in student founders and on its first year anniversary, it jotted out some facts and stats. There are a total of 24 students investors serving 191725 students in Philadelphia and $20000 is the average investment size.
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2. Allrecipes.com 15 Year Anniversary
Give anthropology graduate students launched cookierecipe.com on July 28, 1997 and 15 years later, the site got evolved in allrecipes.com. It has been ranked as the number 1 digital food brand and some of its top recipes are lasagna, banana banana bread, easy sugar cookies, best rolled sugar cookies and easy meatloaf.
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3. Happy 5th Birthday Twitter
Twitter was publicly launched in July 2006 and has 200 million users currently. Twitter has a total of 450 employees and its estimated value is $7.8 Billion. It was initially launched by Jack Dorsey, BizStone and Evan Williams.
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4. Disneyland Paris 20th Anniversary
Disneyland Paris is celebrating its 20th anniversary and since its opening, some of the most popular attractions are Pirates of Caribbean, It’s a small world and Buzz Light-year Laser Blast.
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5. 50th Anniversary On Americans And Foreign Language
Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world but 70% of Americans believe that English is the most commonly spoken language in the world. French is considered to be the sexiest language in the world while Italian and English follow next.
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6. iPhone 5th Anniversary
iPhone was introduced to the world in 2007 and the first Apple app store opened in the year 2008. The names of all the iPhones which have been launched ever since are iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4s and so on.
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7. Linux 20th Anniversary
In 1991, there were 100 developers working on the Linux Kernal and this number rose to 1000 in 2010. Earlier, Linux was most used at home and work whereas now it is used more at work than at home.
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8. A Decade Of Preparedness
2003 to 2013 has been a decade of preparedness and marks the 10th anniversary of Ready. It has recorded 50% more disasters declared than the previous decade and in this period; there have been 77 million visits to the Ready.gov.
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9. 100th Anniversary Of Income Tax
The top tax bracket in the US was once 94% but when the income tax was first instituted, the top bracket was 7% and you had to make $2 Million to qualify. Infact, the Supreme court originally ruled the Income Tax unconstitutional.
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10. 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
On May 2, 1611, the first version of the King James Bible was released and since then, it had undergone many changes to reach its 400th year anniversary. KJV has been translated by 47 scholars in total and has been updated about 100000 times.
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11. Officelist 9th Anniversary
Officelist.com has complete 9 successful years and it all started with just 2 entrepreneurs. Officelist.com is a top lead referral source for the office rental industry in US and Canada. It has helped over 4857 companies and has over 1800 executive suites. 40% of the staff of this company comprises of women.
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12. Office 2010 One Year Anniversary
9 out of 10 say Office 2010 is the best Office release ever and has completed one year. 93% users believe that Office 2010 makes it easier to access and edit documents from anywhere. In fact 50 million people use Office web apps.
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13. Candy Crush 1 Year Anniversary
Candy Crush is a popular Smartphone game which has been downloaded half a billion times and is now celebrating its 1 year anniversary. Sunday is the most popular day to play this game and 6pm to 9 pm is the favorite time of fans to crush candies. Everybody hates the 65th level and 1 in every 23 Facebook users is a Candy Crush fan.
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14. Allrecipes.com 15 Year Anniversary
Allrecipes.com is celebrating its 15 year anniversary and is the most popular digital food brand in the world with 25 million visitors each month. The top 3 most searched items on this platform are chicken, pork chops and slow cooker. Banana crumb is the most reviewed recipe and Baked kale chips is the most liked recipe on Facebook.
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15. Intel Foundation 25th Anniversary
The Intel foundation provides $1.5 Million annually in scholarships and hands-on training for girls and women. In the last 2 years, 2647 Intel employees have volunteered a total of 36545 hours across a total of 1802 projects targeting girls and women. The Intel foundation program also provided funding for 20 high school girls to attend the 8 week program.
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16. Celebrating Americans With Disabilities Act 23rd Anniversary
ADA or Americans with disabilities act was signed in 1990 and is a civil rights law which prohibits discrimination against disabilities under all circumstances. It is a fact that the employment rate of people with disabilities is twice as much as those without any disabilities. Some types of disabilities are visual, hearing, ambulatory and cognitive mental.
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17. The iPhone 5th Anniversary
After being launched in the year 2007, iPhone has created a buzz in the entire world and changed the mobile world. It just took 74 days to sell a million of the original iPhone and it took 3 days for iPhone 4s to reach that figure. What is interesting to know that each day, there are more iPhones sold in the world than people born!
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18. What A Small Company Can Do In One Year
Paylane is a small online payments processing company that tries to make more buzz than all the big ones. It started in 2011 with only 2 people on board and expanded its team by 400%. This company has acquired 8 new partners in just one year and some of them include PayPal, American Express and Wirecard.
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19. Bryce Harper 1 year Anniversary
Bryce Harper is a famous baseball player who did his debut on April 28, 2012 and has completed one year since then. He has been very popular ever since and has been in high demand on magazine covers, talk shows and newspaper headlines.
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20. 20th Anniversary Of Hurricane Sandy
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