World Soil Day
FAO observance since 2014, marking King Bhumibol of Thailand's birthday — he was a soil-science champion. About 33% of Earth's soil is degraded; another acre is lost every minute.
- Category
- Awareness
- Observed in
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Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2007
A gunman killed nine people at a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska.- 2017The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
- 2014Exploration Flight Test-1, the first flight test of Orion, is launched.
- 2013Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sanaa, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.