If you were born before summer 1991, the answer is yes. Sorry if you already felt a bit long in the tooth, but it"s true: Until 30 years ago, Lake Pinatubo was just a rumble in Mount Pinatubo"s magma-filled belly. It was a calamitous eruption on June 15, 1991—one of the 20th century"s most powerful—that blew off Pinatubo"s original summit and formed a vast crater, which gradually filled with water as greenery reclaimed the summit.
Are you older than this lake?
Today in History
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Three Natural Bridges, Wulong Karst, China
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Landscape Architecture Month
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Here s looking at you
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Protecting endangered giants
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Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
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It’s National Dolphin Day!
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Who created the Easter Bunny?
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African buffalo, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
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Church of Notre Dame de Bon-Port, Les Sables-dOlonne, France
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Gujō Hachiman Castle, Gifu prefecture, Japan
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A national icon
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A wonderland in winter
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A valley view at 9,000 feet
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A Bengal tiger in Ranthambore National Park, India
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
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Happy Bee Day to you
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Art in the high desert
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Pasadena Chalk Festival supports local arts education
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Ruins of a royal temple
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Bellissima!
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World Teachers Day
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International Polar Bear Day
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Striated heron on a Victoria water lily, Pantanal, Brazil
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Golden larches and Prusik Peak, the Enchantments, Washington
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Happy New Years Eve!
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Black-naped monarch
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World Donkey Day
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Rice terraces of Mù Cang Chải, Yên Bái province, Vietnam
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International Tiger Day
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