* 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 ( Sikmogil, 식목일 ) was a public holiday in South Korea on April 5 until 2005.

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.

The Executive Yuan approved Arbor Day in the spirit of Dr. Sun that year and has since been celebrated on March 12 for this purpose.

Since 1975, Niger has celebrated Arbor Day as part of its Independence Day: 3 August.

In Poland, Arbor Day is celebrated on October 10.

Arbor Day is celebrated on March 21.

* 1874 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.

* Earliest day on which National Arbor Day can fall, while April 30 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Friday in April.

Combination of reforestation efforts ( e. g. Arbor day was celebrated as a national holiday starting in 1949 ) and policies designed to reduce use of firewood as a source of energy ( e. g. restriction of inflow of firewood into Seoul and other major cities starting in 1958 ) helped to spark a recovery in the 1950s.

In some parts of the country the day is still celebrated and has also been known as Shick Shack Day, Oak and Nettle Day or Arbor Tree Day.

Greytown is where Arbor Day was first celebrated in New Zealand ).

The main campus in Ann Arbor, an internationally recognized and celebrated center for education and research, is located just 35 miles west of the UM-Dearborn campus ; the other regional campus is in Flint.

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

Ontario celebrates Arbor Week from the last Friday in April to the first Sunday in May.

The University of Michigan moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor in 1839, and the city showed steady growth throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, except during the Depression of 1873.

On 4 November 2003, voters approved a greenbelt plan under which the city government bought development rights to pieces of land adjacent to Ann Arbor to preserve them from sprawling development .< ref name =" greenbelt ">

Data from Arbor Networks showed a peak of 0. 2 % of Internet traffic on IPv6 during the launch.

They arrived in Jackson on a well-traveled Indian trail leading west from Ann Arbor.

That August, The Stooges, from Ann Arbor, premiered with a self-titled album.

High school students from Parma therefore currently attend Western High School, which Parma shares with nearby Spring Arbor and the western edge of Jackson.

All except the Wheeling have local terminals ; the Wheeling operates into Toledo from the east through trackage rights on Norfolk Southern to connect with the Ann Arbor and the CN.

Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university has physically expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 31 million gross square feet ( 712 acres or 2. 38 km² ), and transformed its academic program from a strictly classical curriculum to one that includes science and research.

Then, during the total solar eclipse of 29 July 1878, two experienced astronomers, Professor James Craig Watson, the director of the Ann Arbor Observatory in Michigan, and Lewis Swift, an amateur from Rochester, New York, both claimed to have seen a Vulcan-type planet close to the Sun.

Robert Asprin was born in St. Johns, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1964 through 1965.

He was ordained a Baptist minister in Ann Arbor in 1861, and later earned a Ph. D. from State University in Louisville, Kentucky.

* Wal-Mart gets ' coveted award ' from National Arbor Day Foundation

Category: People from Ann Arbor, Michigan

* was one of the shortest state highways in Michigan, extending from a junction with M-22 in downtown Elberta northwest to the former Ann Arbor Railroad ferry docks.

In recent years the care and upkeep of the Rose Arbor itself has been augmented by private donations from dedicated residents who have chosen to sponsor individual posts.

* Dr. Mark Foster graduated from Ashland High School and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Under the direction of Gitlitz, and with technical engineering assistance from Abrahms, Lachman changed the name of the property to Lake Arbor and developed it into the master planned community it is today.

Firmly demonstrating both the sophisticated tastes and buying power of the predominantly African American market, as well as codifying architectural standards requested ( but not mandated ) by County Executives such as Winnie Kelly and Governor Parris Glendening, Lake Arbor established Prince George ’ s County as the most desirable destination for young, affluent African American families moving from Washington, DC for a suburban lifestyle.