by Susan | Aug 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 7, 1495 The Diet of Worms abolished private warfare in Holy Roman Empire. The Ewiger Landfriede (variously translated as “Perpetual Peace”, “Eternal Peace”, “Perpetual Public Peace”) of 1495, banned the medieval right of...
by Susan | Aug 6, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 6, 1945 The United States dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 died from the immediate effects of this bomb and tens of thousands more died in subsequent years from burns and other injuries, and...
by Susan | Aug 5, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 5, 1981 President Ronald Reagan, having ordered striking air traffic controllers back to work within 48 hours, fired 11,359 (more than 70%) who ignored the order, and permanently banned them from federal service (a ban later lifted by President Bill Clinton)....
by Susan | Aug 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 4, 1942 The United States government signed the Mexican Farm Labor Program Agreement with Mexico, the first among several agreements aimed at legalizing and controlling Mexican migrant farmworkers along the southern border of the United States. Conceived as a...
by Susan | Aug 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 3, 1913 Four died and many others were injured in the Wheatland Hop Riot when police and vigilantes fired into a crowd of California hop pickers trying to organize. At the Durst Ranch in Wheatland, the state’s largest single agricultural employer,...
by Susan | Aug 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 2, 1939 President Roosevelt signed into law the Hatch Act (officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities), which prohibits political activity by employees of the federal government. The Act was spurred by widespread allegations that local...
