March 14
1879
Physicist and Peace activist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. The Nobel Prize winner opposed militarism and became a champion of nuclear disarmament. Though he supported the development of the atomic bomb in fear that Germany would develop it first, he warned in a 1944 letter to the Manhattan Project’s Niels Bohr: “When the war is over, then there will be in all countries a pursuit of secret war preparations with technological means which will lead inevitably to preventative wars and to destruction even more terrible than the present destruction of life.”
1934
National Civil Liberties Council founded in England.
1990
Sixteen disability-rights activists were arrested at the U.S. Capitol demanding passage of what would become the Americans With Disabilities Act.
disability rights demonstration
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 