by Susan | Jul 7, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 7, 1957 Convened at the onset of the Cold War, a group of scientists held their first peace conference in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada. The mission of the Pugwash Conference was to “. . . bring scientific insight and reason to bear on threats to...
by Susan | Jul 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 5, 2000 Conservationists launched the largest ever airlift of wild birds. More than 18,000 penguins were moved to safety as an oil slick threatened their South African breeding ground during mating season. A third of the entire species of black-footed penguins...
by Susan | Jul 4, 2016 | Monuments
On 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme at La Boisselle, near Albert, France, the British Royal Engineers dug a mine and detonated 27 tons of high explosive to tunnel towards and under the German trenches and explode mines under them. A massive...
by Susan | Jul 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 4, 2007 The first of several Peace Caravans (Caravanes de Paix) set out from South Kivu and traveled across Africa’s Great Lakes region, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Rwanda. The Scout Associations of the countries in the...
by Susan | Jul 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 3, 1844 The last pair of Great Auks was killed. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, “fishermen hunted down the last pair on the shores of Eldey Island, off the coast of Iceland. The men spotted the mates in the distance and attacked, catching and killing...
