by Susan | Dec 2, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 2, 1942 Enrico Fermi, the Italian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist, directed and controlled the first self-sustaining fission reaction in his laboratory beneath the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, making the atomic bomb possible and...
by Susan | Dec 1, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 1, 1891 The International Peace Bureau was launched in Rome, Italy, “. . . to coordinate the activities of the various peace societies and promote the concept of peaceful settlement of international disputes.” The organization won the Nobel Peace Prize in...
by Susan | Nov 30, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
November 30, 1835 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) “Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will. ” November 30, 1934 Shirley Chisholm “The difference between de jure and de facto...
by Susan | Nov 30, 2014 | Good to Know!
6 Saint Nicholas Day – Christian 8 Rohatsu – Bodhi Day – Buddhist 8 Immaculate Conception of Mary – Catholic Christian 12 Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe- Catholic Christian 16-25 Posades Navidenas – Christian 17-24 – Hanukkah...
by Susan | Nov 29, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 29, 1864 Colonel John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers, many of them drunk, massacred a peaceful village of Cheyenne camped near Sand Creek in Colorado Territory, setting off a long series of bloody retaliatory attacks by the Cheyenne, Sioux, and...
