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Environmental Milestones in History:
January 11, 1887 - Aldo Leopold born - Burlington, Iowa
January 29, 1927 - Edward Abbey born - Indiana, Pennsylvania
January 31, 2002 - Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica begins to collapse
February 16, 2005 - Kyoto Protocol officially goes into force
February 19, 1859 - Svante August Arrhenius born - Sweden (in 1896 he theorized greenhouse gasses)
February 25, 2007 - "Inconvenient Truth", Al Gore's film about global warming, wins "Best Documentary" at the Academy Awards
March 29, 1989 - Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska
April 3, 1934 - Jane Goodall born - London, England
April 6, 2007 - U.N. Climate Report released, predicting more severe weather, coastal flooding, mass extinctions of plants and animals and widespread drought as results of global warming
April 10, 1872 - First Arbor Day
April 21, 1838 - John Muir Born - Dunbar, Scotland
April 22, 1970 - First Earth Day
April 26, 1986 - Chernobyl nuclear reactor explodes in Ukraine
May 4, 1974 - Greenpeace founded
May 24, 1990 - Bombing of environmental activist Judi Bari - Oakland, California
May 28, 1892 - Sierra Club formed
June 14 - California Independence day -Bear flag revolt 1846
June 17 - World Day to combat Drought and Desertification
June 22, 1969 - Cuyahoga River bursts into flame, Cleveland, Ohio
July 4, 1845 - Henry David Thoreau takes up residence at Walden Pond
July 10, 1985 - Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior bombed
August, 1922 - Last California Grizzly Bear shot
August 6, 1945 - USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan
August 9, 1945 - USA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki Japan
September 1, 1914 - Last Passenger Pigeon dies
September 3, 1964 - National Wilderness Preservation System created by Congress
September 17, 1998 - Earth First! Forest defense activist David "Gypsy" Chain murdered
October 2, 1869 - Mohandas K. Gandhi born
October 8, 2004 - Wangari Maathai wins Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 1941 - Ken Sara-Wiwa born - Bori, Nigeria
October 22, 1951 - Nature Conservancy formed
October 26, 1916 - last known Grizzly Bear in Southern California shot and killed in Los Angeles County
October 28, 1982 - United Nations World Charter for Nature passes 111 to 1
November 9, 1986 - Rod Coronado and David Howitt of Sea Shepherd scuttle two Icelandic whaling ships, which account for half of Iceland's whaling fleet and cause $2 million worth of damage to the Icelandic whaling station, in protest of that country's whaling incontravention of the International Whaling Commission moratorium.
November 10, 1973 - Endangered species act signed into law
December 2, 1970 - Environmental Protection Agency signed into law
December 3, 1984 - Union Carbide Chemical disaster Bhopal India
December 6, 1947 - Everglades National Park established
December 10, 1997 - Julia Butterfield Hill climbs Luna
December 22, 1988 - Brazilian rainforest activist Chico Mendez assassinated
December 26, 1985 - Dr. Dian Fossey murdered Harisoke, Rwanda
December 27, 1977 - Clean Water Act signed into law
December 31, 1970 - Clean Air Act signed into law
Holidays:
June 5 - World Environment Day
June 8 - World Oceans Day
Floating Holidays:
Buy Nothing Day- The day after Thanksgiving
Arbor Day - Last Friday in April
