Today in history

March 24
1661
Willi Leddra executed in New England for being a Quaker.
1918
Canadian women win the right to vote.
1964
1,172 arrested in sit-down against nuclear weapons, Parliament Square, London, England.
1965
The first Teach-In to oppose the Vietnam War is held at the University of Michigan.

1967
Martin Luther King, Jr., publicly announced his strong opposition to the Vietnam War.
1974
Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) was founded, electing as their first president Olga Madar, a vice president of the United Auto Workers. The convention adopted four goals: organize the unorganized; promote affirmative action; increase women’s participation in their unions; and increase women’s participation in political and legislative activities.

1980
The archbishop of San Salvador, Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was assassinated while consecrating the Eucharist during mass. Monseñor Romero had become a well-known critic of violence and injustice and, as such, was perceived in right-wing civilian and military circles of El Salvador as a dangerous enemy, and criticized by the Roman Catholic church. Romero had exhorted the police and soldiers to disobey orders to kill innocent people, refusing to be silenced. Worshippers had interrupted, with ovations, his homilies condemning the terrorism of the state.

1989
The Exxon Valdez runs aground
1999
US and NATO begin 78 days of bombing in Yugoslavia