by Susan | Jul 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 20, 1944 In what they called “Operation Valkyrie,” a clique of officers attempted to kill Adolf Hitler and stage a coup. A briefcase concealing a time bomb was left at Hitler’s feet during a meeting. The bomb killed four people, but a table...
by Susan | Jul 19, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 19, 1848 The first Women’s Rights Convention in the U.S. was held at Seneca Falls, New York. Its “Declaration of Sentiments” launched the movement of women to be included in the constitution.When suffrage finally became a reality in 1920, seventy-two years...
by Susan | Jul 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 18, 1872 Great Britain, under the leadership of William Gladstone, passed a law requiring voting by secret ballot. Previously, people had to mount a platform in public and announce their choice of candidate to the officer who then recorded it in the poll book....
by Susan | Jul 17, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 17, 1970 The Young Lords Party, a Puerto Rican nationalist movement, entered Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, New York. The hospital, located in a condemned and dilapidated building, was filled with pain, degradation, neglect, flies, and humiliation. The YLP...
by Susan | Jul 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 16, 1945 The first atomic bomb exploded, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico. Detonation was not made public for three weeks, when two others like it devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Powered by a sphere of plutonium the size of an...
by Susan | Jul 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 15, 1834 The Spanish Inquisition, a centuries-long brutal effort by the Catholic Church to root out heresy, begun in 1481, was officially abolished. The Inquisition was originally intended to ensure the orthodoxy of those who converted from Judaism and Islam...
