* Arbor Day ( Korea ) – April 5

* Arbor Day – last Friday of April in some states in the United States http :// www. arborday. org /

Arbor Day ( from the Latin arbor, meaning tree ) is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees.

The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872 and an estimated one million trees were planted that day.

Birdsey Northrop of Connecticut was responsible for globalizing it when he visited Japan in 1883 and delivered his Arbor Day and Village Improvement message.

In that same year, the American Forestry Association made Northrop the Chairman of the committee to campaign for Arbor Day nationwide.

He also brought his enthusiasm for Arbor Day to Australia, Canada and Europe.

On April 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an Arbor Day Proclamation to the School Children of the United States about the importance of trees and that forestry deserves to be taught in our schools.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Today anyone can use the term " Arbor Day " as well as hold their own Arbor Day celebration.

Many states have Arbor Day although only Victoria has Arbor Week, which was suggested by Premier Dick Hamer in the 1980s.

Arbor Day has been observed in Australia since 20 June 1889.

The Arbor Day ( Dia da Árvore ) is celebrated on September 21.

Its first Arbor Day was celebrated on 2004-10-08.

New Zealand's first Arbor Day planting was in Greytown in the Wairarapa on 3 July 1890.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

Arbor Day was celebrated from 1983 until 1999 in South Africa, when the national government extended it to National Arbor Week, which lasts from 1 – 7 September.

Arbor Day was founded in 1872 by J.

Ann Arbor was founded in 1824, with one theory stating that it is named after the spouses of the city's founders and for the stands of trees in the area.

Ann Arbor was founded in 1824 by land speculators John Allen and Elisha Rumsey.

Ann Arbor became the seat of Washtenaw County in 1827, and was incorporated as a village in 1833.

The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.

In 1851, Ann Arbor was chartered as a city, though the city showed a drop in population during the Depression of 1873.

It was not until the early 1880s that Ann Arbor again saw robust growth, with new immigrants coming from Greece, Italy, Russia, and Poland.

The first major meetings of the national left-wing campus group Students for a Democratic Society took place in Ann Arbor in 1960 ; in 1965, the city was home to the first U. S. teach-in against the Vietnam War.

By the 1920s, each state in the United States had passed public laws that stipulated a certain day to be Arbor Day or Arbor and Bird Day observance.

The University of Michigan ( commonly referred to as Michigan, U-M, UMich, or U of M ) is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States.

" While the public mistakenly presumes that this federal agency is hard at work conducting complicated tests on every new model of truck, van, car, and SUV, in reality, just 18 of the EPA ’ s 17, 000 employees work in the automobile-testing department in Ann Arbor, Michigan, examining 200 to 250 vehicles a year, or roughly 15 percent of new models.

Superior Township is served by four public school districts: Ypsilanti Public Schools, Ann Arbor Public Schools, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools and Willow Run Community Schools.

Years later they added a " high-end " word processor from Ann Arbor Softworks, who were in the midst of a rather public debacle while trying to release FullWrite Professional which was now almost a year late.

In 2009, the Socialist Equality Party held regional public conferences in Los Angeles, California ( May 10 ), New York City ( May 3 ), and Ann Arbor, Michigan ( April 25 ).

On April 18 and 19 2010, the party held a public conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan on the topic of " Social Crisis and War: The Fight for a Socialist Alternative.

He had another house in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is still standing, and is open to the public for tours.

Established in 1892, Central Michigan University is one of the nation ’ s 100 largest public universities and the fourth largest in Michigan ( behind Michigan – Ann Arbor, Michigan State, and Wayne State ) with more than 20, 000 students on its Mount Pleasant campus and another 7, 000 enrolled online and at more than 60 locations worldwide.

He was educated in public schools and graduated from the University of Wyoming in Laramie in 1907, and from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor.

Palmer attended the public schools, Thompson ’ s Academy in Palmer ( now St. Clair ), and studied one year at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Community High School ( CHS ) is a public alternative school serving grades 9 – 12 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

* Oak Apple Day / Arbor Day-now abolished public holiday that is still celebrated in the village.

He was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, on August 22, 1870 ; attended the public schools as well as the Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake, Michigan ; enrolled at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar, but did not practice extensively ; engaged in newspaper work ; appointed postmaster of Leavenworth, Kansas, on June 22, 1898, and served until June 30, 1902, when a successor was appointed ; Mayor of Leavenworth, 1903 – 1905 ; became manager and editor of the Leavenworth Times in 1904.

His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

* Ann Arbor Transportation Authority, the public transit system serving the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan area