🎉 Gaecheonjeol, Korea's National Foundation Day
Where: Chamseongdan, Mount Mani, Ganghwa Island
Nearby on the globe: National Assembly Proceeding Hall → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: October 3
October 3: Gaecheonjeol, Korea's National Foundation Day. Gaecheonjeol means 'the day the sky opened'. It remembers the legend of Dangun founding Gojoseon, Korea's first kingdom. Every year a ceremony is held at Chamseongdan, an altar on top of Mount Mani on Ganghwa Island, where the torch for Korea's National Sports Festival is also lit.
✨ More events on this day
- 1863 🧭 Explorer Pyotr Kozlov was born in Russia. He travelled across Mongolia and Tibet and uncovered the lost desert city of Khara-Khoto, buried in sand.
- 1935 🚀 Astronaut Charles Duke was born in North Carolina, USA. On Apollo 16 he became the tenth person to walk on the Moon and left a family photo there.
- 1962 🚀 Astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral in the Sigma 7 capsule and circled the Earth six times in one of NASA's first missions.
🧠 Question of the day
What does 'Gaecheonjeol' mean?
- The day of the first snow
- The day the sea parted
- The day the sky opened
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Answer: The day the sky opened
Questions
What happened on October 3?
October 3: Gaecheonjeol, Korea's National Foundation Day. It happened in Chamseongdan, Mount Mani, Ganghwa Island.
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