🎉 World Heritage Day: No. 1 is Galápagos
Where: Galápagos Islands
📅 On This Day: April 18
April 18: World Heritage Day: No. 1 is Galápagos. Today is the International Day for Monuments and Sites, a day to protect our shared heritage. When the World Heritage List was first made in 1978, the very first site on it was Ecuador's Galápagos Islands. These islands of giant tortoises and marine iguanas inspired Darwin's ideas about evolution.
✨ More events on this day
- 1938 🎨 Superman made his first appearance in Action Comics #1, becoming the very first superhero of the kind kids still read about today.
- 1946 🏅 Jackie Robinson played his first game for the Montreal Royals, breaking baseball's color barrier a year before he joined the major leagues.
- 1980 🎨 The small town of Elmore City, Oklahoma, held its very first school dance after dancing had been banned there for more than 80 years.
🧠 Question of the day
What was the first site on the World Heritage List?
- The Galápagos Islands
- The Great Wall
- The Pyramids
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Answer: The Galápagos Islands
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What happened on April 18?
April 18: World Heritage Day: No. 1 is Galápagos. It happened in Galápagos Islands.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Ecuador