📅 PyeongChang Winter Olympics open (2018)
Where: PyeongChang, South Korea
Nearby on the globe: Lotte World Tower → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: February 9
February 9, 2018: PyeongChang Winter Olympics open. On 9 February 2018, the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics took place at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium in Gangwon Province. It was the first Winter Olympics held in Korea. At the ceremony, athletes from South and North Korea marched in together under a unification flag.
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- 1986 🚀 Halley's Comet made its closest pass to the Sun on its last visit; it comes back about every 76 years and will return in 2061.
🧠 Question of the day
PyeongChang was Korea's first what?
- Summer Olympics
- Winter Olympics
- World Cup
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Answer: Winter Olympics
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What happened on February 9?
February 9, 2018: PyeongChang Winter Olympics open. It happened in PyeongChang, South Korea.
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