World Cleanup Day
Third Saturday of September. Started in Estonia in 2008 — 50,000 people cleaned the country in five hours. Now 191 countries participate, picking up shorelines, parks, streets.
- Category
- Awareness
- Observed in
Estonia
Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2011
The United States military ended its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, consequently allowing gay and lesbian people to serve openly.- 2019Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.
- 2018At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
- 2017Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.