🌿 The world's first national park service (1911)
Where: Jasper National Park, Canada
📅 On This Day: May 19
May 19, 1911: The world's first national park service. On this day in 1911, Canada created the world's first national park service, known today as Parks Canada. It still protects wild places where bears and elk live, like Jasper National Park in the Rocky Mountains.
✨ More events on this day
- 1780 🌿 On New England's Dark Day, the sky over the northeastern United States turned strangely dark in the daytime, probably because of smoke from distant forest fires.
- 1961 🚀 The Soviet probe Venera 1 passed Venus, becoming the first human-made object to fly by another planet, although radio contact had already been lost.
- 1971 🚀 The Soviet Union launched Mars 2, which became one of the first spacecraft to orbit Mars and study the red planet from above.
🧠 Question of the day
Which country created the first national park service?
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
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Answer: Canada
Questions
What happened on May 19?
May 19, 1911: The world's first national park service. It happened in Jasper National Park, Canada.
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