Earth Day
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Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally through earthday
President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon plant a tree on the White House South Lawn to recognize the first Earth Day.
U.S. senator Edmund Muskie speaking at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia on Earth Day, 1970
The official logo of the Mount Everest Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Leaders' Summit on Climate.
John McConnell was the founder and creator of Earth Day, and The Earth Society Foundation. He was known for designing the Earth Flag, pursuing causes relating to peace, religion, and science.
Earth Day
…formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. In 1969 at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco, the peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere…
McConnell in front of his home in Denver, Colorado, USA with the Earth Flag he designed
Anna and John McConnell one month before his death in Denver, CO. Sept.11, 2012