September 9, 1980
Eight activists from the Atlantic Life Community were arrested after hammering the nose cones of two Mark 12 missiles at the General Electric plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. This action would become the first of an international movement of dozens of “Plowshares” anti-nuclear direct actions.
September 9, 1997
Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army’s allied political party, formally renounced violence by accepting the principles put forward by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell (D-Maine) who was mediating the talks between the Irish Republicans and the British Unionists on Northern Ireland’s future.
