50 years of World Heritage Sites Nov 16, 2022

50 years of World Heritage Sites

At its World Heritage Convention on November 16, 1972, UNESCO adopted an international treaty that for the first time linked the concepts of nature conservation and preservation of cultural properties. The World Heritage Sites program was sparked by Egypt"s plans to construct the Aswan High Dam. UNESCO helped save thousands of antiquities that would have been lost as a result of the dam, which flooded a large swath of the Nile Valley.

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Today in History

Nov 16, 2018Ancient art in the Amazon
Nov 16, 2019Mountain mists over Bavaria
Nov 16, 2020A temple, preserved
Nov 16, 2021Glenfinnan Viaduct
Nov 16, 2023World Philosophy Day
Nov 16, 2024Wadden Sea coast, Friesland, Netherlands
Nov 16, 2025A traboule in Lyon, France

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Feb 10, 2022The Old City of Bern
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Aug 2, 2024Virgin Islands National Park established
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Dec 7, 2024National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Jul 31, 2025Ring-tailed lemur
Jun 14, 2018Celebrating Flag Day: ‘O long may it wave’
Sep 9, 2022Belize Barrier Reef
Oct 7, 2024Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, Germany
Oct 17, 2020Fog above the forest
May 27, 2022Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Dec 4, 2020Protecting wildlife today and tomorrow
Jan 29, 2018Vacuum Chamber 5 at Glenn Research Center
Jul 15, 2023Castelmezzano, Italy
Jul 3, 2018To the 155th on the 155th
May 25, 2023Saksun, Faroe Islands, Denmark
Apr 24, 2023Old underground cellar, Bavaria, Germany
May 7, 2020Where the wildflowers grow
Feb 12, 2022Darwin s Arch
Mar 2, 2020And to think that I saw it in Cappadocia