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克羅地亞著名的網球運動員伊萬尼塞維奇和前披頭士樂隊成員搖滾樂作者、歌手保羅·麥卡特尼與菲德爾·卡斯特羅的共同之處是什么呢?答案就是他們都是左手使用者!全世界大概有10%的人為左撇子。2001年的國際左撇子節的組織者Lauren Milsom女士說:“眾所周知，很多富有創作性思維的人都是左撇子。米開朗基羅、達芬奇、基米·亨德里克斯和畢加索都屬于這類范疇。”

1975年8月13日，美國堪薩斯州托佩卡市的一群左撇子建立了名叫左撇子國際的組織，他們設想把全世界的左撇子聯合起來，共同爭取左撇子的權益。一年后，該組織舉行慶祝活動，并將這一天確定為國際左撇子日，希望有朝一日全世界的左撇子一起慶祝自己的節日。1976年的8月13日就成為第一個國際左撇子日。

What do tennis player Goran Ivanisevic and song writer Paul McCartney have in common with Fidel Castro ? The reason is all of them are left-handers! Along with 10 percent of the world's population they are left-handed， according to Lauren Milsom， organiser of Left-Handers Day 2001.\"It is well-known that a lot of creative people were left-handed，\" Milsom said. Michelangelo， Leonardo da Vinci， Jimi Hendrix and Pablo Picasso are all among them， she added.

On August 13，1975， a group of left-handed people from Kansas State of U.S.A set up a left-handed international organization. They plan to connect with all left-handed people of the world and strive for their own rights together. After one year， this special day was first declared and celebrated on that day. They hoped that one day whole world’s left-handed people could celebrate their own festival all together. So August 13， 1976 is the first International Left-hander's Day.