World Mosquito Day
Marks Sir Ronald Ross's 1897 discovery that mosquitoes transmit malaria. Mosquitoes kill more humans annually than any other animal — including humans themselves.
- Category
- Awareness
- Observed in
United Kingdom
Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2018
Silent Sam, a Confederate monument on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was toppled by protestors.- 2020Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
- 2016Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
- 2014Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.