International Polar Bear Day
A conservation-minded day focused on the Arctic's most photogenic mammal and the sea ice they depend on. Lower your thermostat; the bears will notice.
- Category
- Animal
- Observed in
Canada
United States
Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2015
Russian statesman and politician Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, was assassinated in central Moscow.- 2019Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 in an aerial dogfight and captures him after conducting airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir.
- 2015Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow while out walking with his girlfriend.
- 2013A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.