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Events on Wednesday 15 September 1971 1
1971Greenpeace FoundedEnvironmental activist group launched in VancouverA group of Canadian and American activists sailed a chartered boat toward Amchitka Island, Alaska, to protest US nuclear testing, an action that led to the founding of Greenpeace. The organization grew into one of the world's most prominent environmental campaigning groups. Its early direct-action tactics became a template for later environmental activism.