Happy Birthday to You is one of the most widely sung songs in the English language. Its melody comes from a song called Good Morning to All, written by two American sisters, Mildred and Patty Hill, who were kindergarten teachers in Kentucky. The birthday words appeared in print in the early twentieth century, and by the 1930s the song was being performed widely, and a publishing company claimed the copyright. For many years the song earned large sums in royalties, and film and television productions had to pay to use it. In 2015 a United States court ruled that the claim to the copyright in the words was invalid, and the song is now treated as public domain.
Before and after
- from 3 October 1910 to 5 October 19105 October 1910 revolution
- 19 October 1910Birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 7 November 1910Death of Leo Tolstoy
- from 20 November 1910 to 21 May 1920Mexican Revolution
- 1911Happy Birthday to You
- 1911Founding of New Delhi
- 1911Rutherford discovers the atomic nucleus
- 6 February 1911Birth of Ronald Reagan
- 26 March 1911Birth of Tennessee Williams
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The era
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