📅 On This Day: November 20

November 20, 1989: World Children's Day. On this day in 1989, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It promises that every child has the right to play, to learn, to be protected and to share their views. More countries have joined it than any other human rights treaty.

🎉 World Children's Day (1989)

Where: Geneva, Switzerland (UN Committee on the Rights of the Child)

Nearby on the globe: CERN – Globe of Science and Innovation → 🌍 Open the 3D globe

✨ More events on this day

1858 🎨 Selma Lagerlöf was born in Sweden. She wrote The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, about a boy riding a goose, and was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1889 🔬 Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Missouri, USA. He showed the universe is full of galaxies and is expanding, and the Hubble Space Telescope is named after him.
1998 🚀 Zarya, the very first piece of the International Space Station, was launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Many more modules were added to it over the next years. Baikonur Cosmodrome →

🧠 Question of the day

Which right is in the Convention on the Rights of the Child?

The right to drive a car
The right to play
The right to skip homework

Show the answer

Answer: The right to play

🎂 Landmarks that opened on November 20

Cristo de la Concordiacompleted 1994

Questions

What happened on November 20?

November 20, 1989: World Children's Day. It happened in Geneva, Switzerland (UN Committee on the Rights of the Child).

Which landmarks opened on November 20?

Cristo de la Concordia (completed 1994).

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.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Children's_Day