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See how people wished CERN a Happy Birthday with #MyCERN60

The hashtag #MyCERN60 gave CERN people and CERN’s followers on social media the chance to wish CERN a happy 60th birthday

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In the run up to 29 September, the hashtag #MyCERN60 gave CERN people and CERN’s followers on social media the chance to wish CERN a happy 60th birthday. Here are some of the highlights.

When tasked with wishing the European Laboratory for Particle Physics a happy 60th birthday, what would you do? Would you draw a picture? Bake a cake? #MyCERN60 on Twitter (EN, FR), Facebook, Google+ and social.cern.ch, gave people the opportunity to send a personal birthday greeting to the Organization. The results were heart-warming. Below is a selection of some of the messages received:

(Image credits: top left Sanam Ganjian via Google+, top right Rose Hannert via Twitter, middle left Anna P and Tina Nantsou via Facebook, middle right Francesco Palmonari via Twitter, bottom left  Smita Darmora via Facebook, bottom middle Hannah McClow via Twitter, bottom right Katya Chong via Twitter)
Croatian students from the "Fran Galović" Koprivnica school celebrating CERN's 60th birthday (Image: Marina Furkes/Gymnasium "Fran Galović" Koprivnica, Croatia)

Many other organisations also took the opportunity to wish CERN a happy birthday, from IOP Publishing to Victoria Gallery to APS Physics. Weltmaschine even made a video of German-speaking researchers and personnel wishing CERN “Glückwünsche”. Birthday wishes came from as far afield as Indonesia and Brazil, but also from many CERN people:

(Image: Julien Hurte)
Sarah Charley with Manuel Olmedo at La Tournette (2351m) in France (Image: Sarah Charley)

Thank you to everyone who sent in their birthday messages!