by Susan | Nov 29, 2014 | Good to Know!
by Susan | Nov 28, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 28, 1943 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt joined British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at a conference in Tehran, Iran to discuss strategies for winning World War II and potential terms for a peace settlement. In a joint...
by Susan | Nov 27, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 27, 1025 In what came to be known as the 1st Crusade, Pope Urban II called on all Christians to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims and reclaim the Holy Land: “Deus vult (God wills it)!” At the Council of Clermont in France, the pope promised...
by Susan | Nov 26, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 26, 1968 U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution against capital punishment following an official report which said, “Examination of the number of murders before and after the abolition of the death penalty does not support the theory that capital...
by Susan | Nov 25, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 25, 1986 President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that $30 million in profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to support the Nicaraguan contra insurgents in violation of U.S. law, in what became known as the...
