by Susan | Aug 9, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
August 11, 1833 Robert Green Ingersoll “Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.” August 12, 1948 Sue Monk Kidd “There’s a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of ‘soul...
by Susan | Aug 8, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 8, 1974 President Richard M. Nixon resigned from office, the first U.S. president ever to do so. The House Judiciary Committee had, with bipartisan support, voted for three articles of impeachment: obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of...
by Susan | Aug 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 7, 1495 The Diet of Worms abolished private warfare in Holy Roman Empire. The Ewiger Landfriede (variously translated as “Perpetual Peace”, “Eternal Peace”, “Perpetual Public Peace”) of 1495, banned the medieval right of...
by Susan | Aug 6, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 6, 1945 The United States dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 died from the immediate effects of this bomb and tens of thousands more died in subsequent years from burns and other injuries, and...
by Susan | Aug 5, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 5, 1981 President Ronald Reagan, having ordered striking air traffic controllers back to work within 48 hours, fired 11,359 (more than 70%) who ignored the order, and permanently banned them from federal service (a ban later lifted by President Bill Clinton)....
