by Susan | Nov 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 16, 1989 Six Jesuit priests — Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín Baró, Segundo Montes, Joaquín López y López, Amando López and Juan Ramón Moreno — their housekeeper, Elba Ramos and her 16-year-old daughter, Celina, were brutally murdered by U.S.-trained and...
by Susan | Nov 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 15, 1957 The US Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), now known as Peace Action, was founded by Lenore Marshall, Norman Cousins and others in response to the nuclear arms race and the Eisenhower administration’s policies on the production and...
by Susan | Nov 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 14, 1935 A supplementary decree to the Nuremberg Laws that had been enacted in September defined who was considered Jewish in Nazi Germany. The Reich Citizenship Law officially came into force on this date. The laws were expanded on 26 November to include...
by Susan | Nov 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 13, 2014 The Vatican announced it will install showers for the homeless in public restrooms on the grounds of St. Peter’s Square; Almoner Archbishop Konrad Krajewski also requested several local parishes around Rome to do the...
by Susan | Nov 12, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November12, 1893 The Durand Line, the 2,250-kilometre (1,400 mi) long border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, was established by agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand, a British diplomat and civil servant of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, the Afghan Amir, to...
by Susan | Nov 11, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 11, 1918 At 11 o’clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the First World War came to an end. “The War to End All Wars” took the life of some 9 million soldiers; 21 million more were wounded. Civilian casualties caused indirectly by the...
