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

1st March 2025
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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12th November 1970: A dead whale is blown up with dynamite by the Oregon State Highway Division

12th November 2023
Tagged as: Dynamite, Explosion, nature, Oregon, Whale

The Oregon State Highway Division blew up a dead whale that had washed up on a beach.

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7th July 1911: North Pacific Fur Seal Convention signed for wildlife conservation

7th July 2023
Tagged as: Britain, conservation, hunting, Japan, nature, Russia, seal, USA, Wildlife

The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, the first international treaty that dealt with wildlife conservation issues, was signed.

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12th January 1895: Foundation of the National Trust by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley

12th January 2023
Tagged as: Charity, England, Landscape, National Trust, nature, Northern Ireland, Preservation, United Kingdom, Wales

Describing itself as ‘a charity that works to preserve and protect historic places and spaces – for ever, for everyone’ the National Trust is one of the largest landowners in the United Kingdom.

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

12th November 1970: A dead whale is blown up with dynamite by the Oregon State Highway Division

7th July 1911: North Pacific Fur Seal Convention signed for wildlife conservation

12th January 1895: Foundation of the National Trust by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley

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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

15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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