Is it your birthday today? Here are four things you may not know happened on this day in history

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, the former Real Madrid and Brazil legend, popularly dubbed “The Phenomenon” and better known as Ronaldo, was born on this day in 1976

Did you know that:

• Famous jewellery company Tiffany & Co., was founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young on this day in 1837 in New York City as a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”
• UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld died on this day in 1961 in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• The Assemblée Nationale of France voted on this day in 1981 to abolish capital punishment in France