by Susan | Oct 31, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 31, 1517 Priest and scholar Martin Luther approached the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nailed a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation. The term “Protestant” (meaning...
by Susan | Oct 24, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 24, 2010 A “Stop Eviction!” campaign was launched in Spain to gain the support of municipalities to prevent evictions and to shelter families that had been evicted in vacated housing with affordable rents. They also lobbied for the ability to return property...
by Susan | Oct 23, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 23, 1956 A group of engineering students in the Hungarian capital of Budapest decided to hold a demonstration not about the situation in Hungary, but about Poland, where a revolt in the Polish city of Poznan had been crushed by the Soviet army in June. Word...
by Susan | Oct 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 18, 1767 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon completed their survey of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as areas that would eventually become the states of Delaware and West Virginia. The Penn and Calvert families had hired...
