by Susan | Aug 25, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 25, 1985 Samantha Smith died in an airplane crash in Maine. In 1982, the 11-year-old American schoolgirl had written a letter to Soviet Russia’s leader Yuri Andropov asking, “Why do you want to conquer the whole world, or at least our...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 24, 1967 Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party (Yippies) temporarily disrupted trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing 300 dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease for six minutes as brokers scrambled to grab...
by Susan | Aug 22, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 22, 1971 The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested twenty people in Camden, New Jersey, and five in Buffalo, New York, for conspiracy to steal and destroy draft records. Eventually known as the Camden 28, most were Roman Catholic activists, including four...
by Susan | Aug 21, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 21, 1968 The Czechoslovakian people spontaneously and nonviolently resisted invasion of their country by hundreds of thousands of troops and more than 5,000 tanks from the Soviet Union and four other Warsaw Pact countries. The troops were enforcing the...
by Susan | Aug 20, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 20, 1866 The newly organized National Labor Union, a coalition of skilled and unskilled workers, farmers, and reformers, called on Congress to mandate an eight-hour...
by Susan | Aug 19, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 19, 1839 The French government announced that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the...
