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1992 World's largest environmental summit opens, Rio De Janeiro Brazil

1990 U.N. appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador

1989 Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62

1970 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)

1947 Jim Nollman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Tufts University, composer, musical theater, conceptual artist, environmental activist, recorded interspecies music with wolves, whales, dolphins, deer, elk, desert rats

1938 Alvin Curran, born in Providence, Rhode Island, composer, professor at Mills College, co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva, using electronic and environmental found sounds

1934 Bob Martinez, born in America, served as Mayor of Tampa, Florida and 40th Governor of Florida, initiated Preservation 2000, America's largest environmental land acquisition program, appointed Drug Czar by President George H.W. Bush

1932 William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency


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