The character has turned into a global icon.
Hello Kitty will celebrate her 50th birthday on Nov 1. The Straits Times shares 50 things about the charming global icon.1. Hello Kitty is not a cat, but a British schoolgirl named Kitty White. She was born on Nov 1, 1974.3. She lives in London with her parents and twin sister Mimmy, who wears a yellow bow. Her boyfriend is her childhood friend Dear Daniel.4. Hello Kitty has two pets, a Persian cat named Charmmy Kitty and a white Djungarian hamster named Sugar.6.
Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna’s most notable creation was Miffy, a small rabbit. PHOTO: MIFFY AND FRIENDS/ FACEBOOK15. In 1983, Hello Kitty was named the Unicef children’s ambassador to the US. She was appointed as a children’s ambassador in Japan in 1994.17. Ms Yang Tao, a fan from China, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of Hello Kitty memorabilia, with 7,096 items. She started her collection in 2006.
24. For her 40th anniversary in 2014, Hello Kitty went on a space mission to promote Japan’s high-tech industry aboard the Hodoyoshi-3 satellite. 27. Sanrio was fined €6.2 million in 2019 by the European Union’s antitrust regulator for restricting cross-border online sales of products featuring Hello Kitty.
The couple met while queueing for the Hello Kitty Japanese wedding set at a McDonald’s outlet. PHOTO: THE NEW PAPER FILE 38. In 2016, SingPost launched a set of Hello Kitty stamps to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Singapore and Japan. 43. Coffee chain Starbucks launched limited-edition Hello Kitty drinks and merchandise as part of the character’s 50th anniversary on Sept 10.
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