National Kick Butt Day Timeline

​2018

​Fighting for survival

​ A Thai youth soccer team survived two weeks in a flooded cave without food and water. The boys were determined to make it out alive.

​​2014

​World's youngest director

Saugat Bista, a 7-year-old boy from Nepal, directed a full-length feature film which was released in 2014. He entered the Guinness Book of World Records.

​1991

Life savers

Two South Africans invented a device to transport clean water more easily and efficiently. This invention saved lives in Africa where clean water was not easily accessible.

​1987

​Reaching the peak at 100

Teiichi Igarashi became the first centenarian to climb Japan's tallest mountain, Mt.Fuji. He had been trying since he was 89 years old!