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1st March 1872: Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park

1st March 2022
Tagged as: Grant, National Park, nature, Yellowstone

Yellowstone became the first national park in the world after President Ulysses S. Grant signed The Act of Dedication law.

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25th August 1916: The U.S. National Park Service signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson

25th August 2020
Tagged as: America, National Park, United States, Wilson, Woodrow Wilson

Forty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, the service was created when President Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act on 25 August, 1916.

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1st March 1872: Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park

25th August 1916: The U.S. National Park Service signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

1st June 1495: First written reference to Scotch whisky (distilled at @LindoresAbbey)

31st May 1669: Samuel Pepys writes the final entry of his famous diary that records the period of the Restoration

30th May 1381: Outbreak of the Peasants’ Revolt in England

29th May 1453: Sultan Mehmed II conquers Constantinople and defeats the Byzantine Empire

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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