International "Like" day

Today marks the first “Like” gesture day, associated with gladiator matches of the Roman Empire. The gesture of showing the thumbs up was first introduced by Quintus Servilius Caepio in Ancient Rome in 106 BC.

On this very day, Roman consul Quintus Servilius Caepio introduced gladiator fights as a public event in 106 B.C. and started the custom of sparing the wounded gladiator’s life with a well-known thumbs-up gesture, which survived till this day as a common “like.”
Spectators of the gladiator games used this sign to express their sympathy to a defeated gladiator and to grant him life.