by Susan | Apr 17, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 17, 1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion began when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees landed in Cuba and attempted to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was a failure; nearly 1,200 of the 1,500 attackers were taken prisoner....
by Susan | Apr 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 16, 2000 Between 10,000 and 20,000 activists blockaded meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Sitting down at intersections and locking arms to form human chains, the protesters were opposed to Bank and IMF policies that...
by Susan | Apr 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 15, 1915 The Armenian Genocide, the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey, started on this day, when Ottoman...
by Susan | Apr 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 14, 1947 Segregation of Mexican-American school children in California was declared unconstitutional by the Federal Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit. Suit had been brought against several school districts in Orange County, California by Gonzalo Méndez and...
by Susan | Apr 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 13, 1919 In Amritsar, holiest city of the Sikh religion, British and Gurkha troops fired without warning and killed at least 379 and wounded another 1,200 Sikhs meeting in a park known as Jallianwala Bagh to celebrate their new year’s festival of Baisakhi Mela....
by Susan | Apr 11, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 11, 1945 The American Third Army liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White) April 11, 1961 The trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann began in Israel. The man accused of leading Hitler’s effort to exterminate the Jewish...
