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restful night's sleep. Welcome to the I Can't Sleep podcast where I bore you to sleep one fact

at a time. I'm your host Benjamin Boster and tonight let's fall asleep learning about Earth Day.

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22nd to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

First held on April 22nd, 1970. It now includes a wide range of events

coordinated globally through Earthday.org, formerly Earth Day Network, including 1 billion people

in more than 193 countries.

In 1969 at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day

to honor the earth and the concept of peace. To first be observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U.

at the United Nations.

A month later, United States Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea

to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970,

and hired a young activist Dennis Hayes to be the national

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