Is that a fact? I've wondered this for a long time.
The first Earth Day I remember actually being a thing where I was growing up happen to be on Easter Sunday. I just looked it up at this coincidence happened a few years into Earth Day, but the whole thing was either not a big thing yet (at least where I lived) or I just wasn't paying attention. So, for a long time, I thought it was started as a mockery of Easter.
When Earth Day became so big that it couldn't be ignored, and I saw that it wasn't on Easter, I wondered why the change. It was only in the last couple of years that I realized that it's not a "changeable feast" for the Godless. I was wondering why they picked this date.
It makes sense.
I heard this from a reliable source, so I looked it up and sure enough, it was 1870 when Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (he changed his name to Lenin in 1901) was born, curiously exactly 100 years before the first Earth Day. You could say he was "ahead of his time."
And if it isn't entirely off-topic, before the first centennial of his birth, the political movement he would begin would become the cause of death for over 100-million people. Some estimates say 140 million, but who's counting? Certainly not the "progressives" like
Hil-la-ry followers.
BTW
here is a wonderful article by a very entertaining scholar, Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science and executive director of
The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Dr. Kengor admits that
nobody has officially, honestly, authoritatively and openly proclaimed Earth Day as a successor to Lenin's Birthday, but let's face it, such things are nothing new in the Red propaganda legacy. I know this for sure because I just finished reading
None Dare Call It Treason, a fine historic snapshot of conservative and courageous historical perspective which was not afraid to call it what it is when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck: "It's a duck."
I thought it would be good to read about 1964, the year after JFK was αssαssιnαtҽd, when these days
none dare call it treason, what
Hil-la-ry has been doing. I wasn't wrong.
In light of all this, I find it nothing short of expected that there would be a countermeasures campaign afoot to discredit any ties between Earth Day and Ulyanov's birthday. Hey, maybe that's what they mean by Earth Day has nothing to do with Lenin's Birthday, because his name wasn't Lenin!
The article, "Happy Earth Day ~ and Lenin Day," headlines with the following photo, but the article itself is in Adobe Flash and I don't know how to copy that: