Earth Day is April 22nd. Every year, somebody makes the point this is also the birthday of the communist V.I. Lenin, back in 1870. The old man turns 144 this year.
I remember the first Earth Day in 1970. I walked out of a lecture thinking that all industry would have to be abolished. Perhaps I jumped the gun. I was young.
Some cities celebrate the same idea by turning off all the lights for an hour in the evening. It's called Earth Hour. But Earth Hour was on March 29. Of course, in North Korea, every night is Earth Hour.
In July, we will have Mars Day.
There is no Venus Day, probably because the day is longer than the year, on that planet. Would Venus Day be a feminist holiday? Or Doris Day's sister?
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