🎉 World Environment Day
Where: UN Environment Programme, Nairobi
📅 On This Day: June 5
June 5: World Environment Day. Today is World Environment Day. It was first held in 1973 with the theme 'Only One Earth. ' It is led by the UN Environment Programme, which has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and each year people think together about problems like ocean pollution.
✨ More events on this day
- 1883 💡 The first regularly scheduled Orient Express left Paris, a luxury train that later carried travellers all the way to Istanbul.
- 1995 🔬 Scientists in Colorado created the first Bose–Einstein condensate, a strange new state of matter made by cooling atoms to almost absolute zero.
- 2024 🚀 Boeing's Starliner spacecraft launched on its first flight with a crew, carrying astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station.
🧠 Question of the day
What was the theme of the first World Environment Day?
- Bigger Cities
- Let's Go to the Moon
- Only One Earth
Show the answer
Answer: Only One Earth
Questions
What happened on June 5?
June 5: World Environment Day. It happened in UN Environment Programme, Nairobi.
In the game, the "Today on Earth" panel shows this story on its day, with a question to answer and a place to fly to.