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.  -American Heritage Magazine, October 1993 History Highlights Environmental Timeline Earth Day Audio Information on this page provided by:The Wilderness Society How the First Earth Day Came About By Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day What was the purpose of Earth Day? How did it start?
Learn how Earth Day became a global environmental event that will include a billion people on April 22. By John Roach, for National Geographic News. PUBLISHED. People at an Earth Day event lift their bicycles in Budapest, Hungary, on April 22, 2012.Photograph by Attila Volgyi, Xinhua/Eyevine/Redux. More than a billion people around the world will celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 2013âthe 43rd anniversary of the annual day of action on the environment.nstead, April 22, 1970, was chosen for the first Earth Day in part because it fell on a Wednesday, the best part of the week to encourage a large turnout for the environmental rallies held across the country, Rogers said.