🌞GOOD MORNING☕️
👭👬World Population Day – July 11, 2021👪
World Population Day on July 11 is a holiday that’s dedicated to focusing on the importance of population issues. The day was established by the United Nations as a result of the massive interest people had in Five Billion Day in 1987.
HISTORY OF WORLD POPULATION DAY
Sure, you might know that there are more than seven billion people on earth right now, but how often do you stop to think about what that really means? Five Billion Day, in 1987, was meant to acknowledge the date on which the world’s population reached an estimated five billion people, which supposedly happened on July 11 of that year (hence the annual date for World Population Day). And look how much the population has increased since then! Population issues cover a lot of territories, from family planning, gender equality, and environmental impacts to human rights concerns.
World Population Day was established in 1989 by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme — UNDP. The inspiration for this holiday was the peaking public interest in the celebration of ‘Five Billion Day’ on July 11, 1987. This original date was decided to be set as ‘World Population Day’ by the United Nations General Assembly, and resolution 45/216 made this official in December 1990.
World Population Day serves to highlight the growing problems that come with a growing global population. Overpopulation is a crucial issue, especially considering that world resources are depleting at an unsustainable rate. Awareness about the effects of overpopulation on development and nature is emphasized. The increasing population also sheds light on health problems faced by women during pregnancy and childbirth, making the need for family planning, gender equality, and maternal health more important than ever.
The issue of population is also causing strain on society: heinous crimes are happening more than ever in the areas of gender inequality and human rights, especially in developing countries. Leadership is already doing a subpar job at taking care of its citizens, and as more people come into the world, violations such as human trafficking and child labor are increasingly becoming normal.
👙National Swimming Pool Day – July 11, 2021🏊
National Swimming Pool Day falls on July 11 each year and is not just a celebration of swimming pools but also of all the paraphernalia that accompanies pools, such as pool toys, accessories, and swimwear. Think back to your favorite pool memories, and make today worthy of adding to your memory bank. What makes the perfect pool day? Is it the chance to show off that summer bod, looking fabulous in the latest swimwear designs, or maybe the fact that you love the exercise that swimming provides? Or perhaps you love poolside barbeques and the very thought of it gets your mouth watering. Whatever the reason, we are sure glad that someone long ago thought of the concept of a swimming pool, which makes summer a lot more enjoyable (and the heat more bearable) altogether.
HISTORY OF NATIONAL SWIMMING POOL DAY While there is no clear intimation of when National Swimming Pool Day was first founded or observed, we can track the origin of the swimming pool itself. Some sources trace the first swimming pool-like structure all the way back to 3000 B.C. in Mohenjo-Daro (in modern-day Pakistan), where a 40 by 23-foot pool was discovered, lined with bricks and covered with a tar-like sealant. Years later, the Romans built artificial pools in which to conduct military exercises, nautical games, and athletic training. The Roman emperors would often have private pools with fish in them, hence one of the Latin words for ‘pool’ is ‘piscina,’ meaning ‘fish pond.’ A rich Roman lord and patron of the arts, Gaius Maecenas, is said to have built the first heated swimming pool in 100 B.C. By the mid-1800s, swimming pools gained popularity in Britain, with the earliest indoor pools with diving boards being built in 1837. The Maidstone Swimming Club, founded in 1844 in Maidstone, Kent, is one of the oldest surviving swimming clubs in Britain. The idea behind its formation was to teach people to swim and therefore survive drowning — following a spate of drownings that happened in the rivers in the area. The oldest known swimming pool in the U.S. is called Underwood Pool, located in Belmont, Massachusetts. It was only after World War II that home swimming pools became popular in America, and Hollywood movie stars’ luxury homes with pools made this an all the more desirable symbol of status. Nowadays, the U.S. has more than 10.4 million home pools, though New Zealand holds the record for most swimming pools per capita. And here we thought they only had a lot of sheep!
NATIONAL SWIMMING POOL DAY TIMELINE
ᖇIᗪᗪᒪE Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪᗩY👀
Q: What did the mayonnaise say when the refrigerator door was opened?
A: Close the door, I'm dressing.
TᖇIᐯIᗩ Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪᗩY🏆
Trivia Question: In “One Hundred and One Dalmatians”, what is the name of the evil woman who hires two henchmen to steal the puppies?
Answer: Cruella de Vil.
𝓢OᑎG Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪᗩY🎸
Shania Twain - Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) (Official Music Video)
🕺💃ᗪᗩᑎᑕE ᖇOᑌTIᑎE Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪᗩY🕺💃
Henrietta Onodi (HUN) rocks her ICONIC “Hungarian Rhapsody” for Olympic SILVER!
🐶ᑕᑌTᑎE𝓢𝓢 OᐯEᖇᒪOᗩᗪ Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪᗩY🐕
🌞ᑭᖇETTY ᑭIᑕ Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪᗩY🌼
📓ᑫᑌOTE Oᖴ TᕼE ᗪᗩY✐ ✍
