🎉 World Oceans Day
Where: Great Barrier Reef
📅 On This Day: June 8
June 8: World Oceans Day. Today is World Oceans Day, a day to care for the sea. Canada first proposed it in 1992. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, so big that it can be seen from space.
✨ More events on this day
- 1887 💡 Herman Hollerith applied for a patent on his punched-card machine for counting information, an invention that led to the computer company IBM.
- 1906 🌿 President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act, letting presidents protect amazing places as national monuments; Devils Tower became the first that same year.
- 2004 🚀 Venus passed in front of the Sun as a tiny black dot, the first transit of Venus anyone had seen in more than 120 years.
🧠 Question of the day
Which country first proposed World Oceans Day?
- Canada
- Mongolia
- Switzerland
Show the answer
Answer: Canada
🐾 World day: World Oceans Day
The ocean covers over 70% of Earth and makes about half the oxygen we breathe.
Questions
What happened on June 8?
June 8: World Oceans Day. It happened in Great Barrier Reef.
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