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waste and water solution
1769 — Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution. -
the walden
1854 — Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden -
ecology
1866 — The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel -
great Chicago fire
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. -
acid rain
1872 — The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain -
smog
1905 — The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution -
first car
The popular Ford Model T “Tin Lizzie” relied on hand-crank starting from 1908 until 1919. was the worlds first car made by Henry ford. -
world war 1
started when The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand took place. July 28 - Austria declared war on Serbia. -
national park service
1916 — US Congress created the National Park Service -
world war 2
Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, the us got involved when penal harbor happened -
the holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews. -
peral harbor
this event happened when the Japanese air fleet attacked a navel base in hawiii. they wanted to cripple the American navel force. -
vitam war
China had become communist in 1949 and communists were in control of North Vietnam. The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. -
Our Lady of the Angels School fire
On Monday, December 1, 1958, a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, shortly before classes were to be dismissed for the day. The fire originated in the basement near the foot of a stairway. -
the internet
n the late 1960s, with the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, which was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the “first workable prototype of the Internet” was born. With ARPANET multiple computers were able to communicate with one another on a single network.Aug -
silent spring
1962 — Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring -
earthrise
1968 — The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise -
first earth day
1970 — First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established -
kyoto protocol
1997 — The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide -
U.S. rejects the Kyoto 2001 —Protocol
U.S. rejects the Kyoto 2001 —Protocol -
us rejoins Paris agreement
2021 — U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation -
September 11th 2001
this tragic event took place when a islamic tourist extremest group highjacked American airline planes and flew the into structures such as the twin towers and the pentagon -
Paris agreement discussion
2017 — U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation