Calendar of the Day // 100 years since Interpol was founded
Radio Moldova presents the calendar of the day - the most important events in history, politics and culture, which we mark today, 7 September
1910: Marie Curie isolated the first pure sample of radium.
1923: The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) is founded. The idea for such an organisation arose at the International Criminal Police Congress held in 1914 in Monaco. The organisation has 195 member countries and is based in Lyon, France.
1939: Romania declares itself neutral following the outbreak of the Second World War and gives its agreement in principle to the passage of war material destined to help Poland.
1949: The Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed, with its capital in Bonn.
1953: Nikita Khrushchev is elected the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1977: President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian Prime Minister Omar Torrijos sign a treaty on permanent neutrality and the operation of the Panama Canal in Washington.
1998: Google Inc. is founded, the idea of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two graduates of Stanford University in the United States. Google quickly became the world's most famous and widely used search engine, a landmark in the "digital lives" of billions of people, especially in the Western world. The company's first headquarters was a garage in California. At the time, no one imagined that the project the two were working on would end up changing the world. The company's first office was the two dorm rooms where Larry Page and Sergey Brin lived at Stanford. The first Google server ever created was built in a space made out of Lego pieces and housed on the Stanford University campus. Google today is one of the most successful business stories.
Today marks International Clean Air for Blue Skies Day. Encouraged by the international community's growing interest in clean air and emphasising the need for further efforts to improve air quality, including reducing air pollution, to protect human health, the United Nations General Assembly decided to designate 7 September as International Clean Air Day for Blue Skies. Today, the international community recognises that improving air quality can improve climate change mitigation and that climate change mitigation efforts can improve air quality. UN Member States recognize the need to substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses caused by hazardous chemicals and pollution and contamination of air, water and soil by 2030, and to reduce the negative per capita environmental impacts in cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and the management of municipal and other waste by 2030.
