Source: Good News Network
On this day 128 years ago, Yosemite National Park in California became the third U.S. National Park. President Lincoln had set aside the majestic valley, years earlier, marking the first time in human history a huge tract of land had been dedicated to public use and preservation.
The more than one million square-miles of Yosemite in the Sierra Nevada Mountains are host to giant sequoia trees, towering waterfalls, and the largest granite monolith in the world, El Capitan. (1890)MORE Good News on this Day:
- John Philip Sousa, who later, invented the sousaphone, became leader of the United States Marine Corps Band (1880)
- Everything-Happens-For-a-Reason: Wiley Post, who became the first pilot to fly solo around the world, had an accident that cost his left eye–but the settlement money bought him his first aircraft (1926)
- Cyprus and Nigeria gained their independence from the UK in 1960; Ghana, in 1957
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