by Susan | Jan 26, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 26, 1788 The first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia landed in Botany Bay. Over the next 60 years, approximately 50,000 criminals were transported from Great Britain. January 26, 1972 In response to the Australian Government’s refusal to...
by Susan | Jan 25, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 25, 1776 The Continental Congress authorized the first national war memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec three weeks before. Although originally intended for Independence Hall in...
by Susan | Jan 25, 2016 | Monuments
The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory was established in 1952 at the height of the Cold War to meet urgent national security needs by advancing nuclear weapons science and technology. In 1982 a chemist named Leon Smith was dying of cancer and wrote a letter to the editor...
by Susan | Jan 24, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
January 24, 1932 Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our...
by Susan | Jan 24, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 24, 1955 Ira Hayes, a Native American who was one of six US Marines to raise the US flag at Iwo Jima, died of exposure and acute acute alcoholism in a cotton field on the Pima reservation. His life and death was immortalized by Peter LaFarge in “The...
