February
2
World
Wetlands Day
Country specific
Constitution Day (The Philippines)
Groundhog Day (United States and Canada)
Inventor's Day (Thailand)
February
2 : World Wetlands Day
World Wetlands Day occurs on February 2nd, every year.
It marks
the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands, called
Ramsar Convention, on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of
Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. WWD was celebrated
for the first time in 1997 and made an encouraging beginning.
Each year, government agencies, non-governmental organizations,
and groups of citizens at all levels of the community have taken
advantage of the opportunity to undertake actions aimed at raising
public awareness of wetland values and benefits in general and
the Ramsar Convention in particular. From 1997 to 2007, the
Convention’s Web site has posted reports from more than 95 countries
of WWD activities of all sizes and shapes, from lectures and
seminars, nature walks, children’s art contests, sampan races,
and community clean-up days, to radio and television interviews
and letters to newspapers, to the launch of new wetland policies,
new Ramsar sites, and new programmes at the national level.On
February 2010 World Wetlands day held in Korea under the Ramsar
support.
Events
1536 – Spaniard
Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is
incorporated.
1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants
arrives in San Francisco, California.
1899 – The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne
decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between
Sydney and Melbourne.
1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
1987 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution the Philippines
enacts a new constitution.
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