by Susan | Jan 19, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 19, 1969 Student Jan Palach died after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague’s Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union. His funeral turns into another major protest. The memorial is pictured...
by Susan | Jan 18, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 18, 1962 The U.S. began spraying herbicides on foliage in Vietnam to eliminate jungle canopy cover for Viet Cong guerrillas (a policy known as “territory denial”). The U.S. ultimately dropped more than 20 million gallons of such defoliants,...
by Susan | Jan 17, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 17, 1899 Under orders from President William McKinley, Commander Edward D. Taussig of the USS Bennington landed on Wake and formally took possession of the island for the United States. Located approximately halfway between Honolulu and Manila, it was a good...
by Susan | Jan 16, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 16, 2013 Hundreds of demonstrators angered at the conduct of outgoing Kenyan legislators doused 221 empty coffins with gasoline and set them on fire Wednesday, causing an inferno outside Parliament’s main entrance. Organizers of the protest said the coffins...
by Susan | Jan 15, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 15, 1950 At the National Emergency Civil Rights Conference, more than 4,200 delegates from fifty-eight national organizations met in Washington to lobby their congressman to support the president’s civil rights program and a permanent Fair Employment Practices...
by Susan | Jan 14, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 14, 2011 The former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, fled his country to Saudi Arabia following a series of street demonstrations against his regime and corrupt policies which demanded for freedom, rights and democracy. This is considered as the...
