Strange Calendar Event Entry

Some days ago I found a birthday greeting in my calendar as title of a "whole day" event. Obviously, if this isn't automatically done by the system, someone from outside must have created it. Because there is no birthday field in my contacts I doubt that my system has knowledge of my birthday for an automated message. Therefore, someone else seems to be the sender.
In the detail screen of the event the title text is also shown in the note field. Furthermore "Contacts" is shown as participant. When I try to delete the event the system refuses to do so with a message that Birthday events of my contacts can only be deleted by the calendar administrator. This is strange because I'm able to delete all other calender events and it's my private system with no other administrator than myself.
Does someone know what can be the source of that event i.e. how someone from outside my system can create an event entry in my calender?

Am I the only one? Help.

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