by Susan | Jan 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 2, 1492 The kingdom of Granada fell to the Christian forces of King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella I, and the Moors lost their last foothold in Spain. In 1502 the Spanish crown ordered all Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity. The next century saw a...
by Susan | Jan 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 1, 1831 William Lloyd Garrison first published The Liberator (four hundred copies printed in the middle of the night using borrowed type), which became the leading abolitionist paper in the United States. He labeled slave-holding a crime and called for...
by Susan | Dec 31, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
December 31, 1970 The U.S. Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which in 1964 authorized an increase in U.S. military involvement in Vietnam as a response to a later to be revealed as fictitious attack on U.S. naval forces patrolling close to the North...
by Susan | Dec 31, 2014 | Good to Know!
1 Mary, Mother of God – Catholic Christian Feast of St Basil – Orthodox Christian Gantan-sai (New Years) – Shinto 5 Twelfth Night – Christian Mahayana New Year – Buddhist Guru Gobindh Singh birthday – Sikh 6 Epiphany –...
by Susan | Dec 30, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 30, 1853 James Gadsden, the U.S. minister to Mexico, and General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico, signed the Gadsden Purchase in Mexico City. The treaty settled the dispute over the location of the Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas,...
