It wasn’t until three-and-a-half centuries after Christ’s birth that the date Dec. 25 was chosen to celebrate his birthday. Pope Julius I picked the date in 350 AD, and it was formalized in 529 AD, ...

but if you have a festive birthday, falling sometime between Christmas and new year, the celebrations can fall even more flat. In one way, you could look at a festive birthday as a built-in ...