April 14
1775
The first American society for the abolition of slavery is organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1930
Police arrest over 100 Chicano farm workers for their union activities in Imperial Valley, California. Eight will be convicted of so-called “criminal syndicalism.”
1937
Bruderhof, a Christian peace church, raided by the Gestapo in Frankfurt.
1968
A massive student rally in West Berlin blocked the city’s main thoroughfare, the Kurfurstendamm. It ended in violent clashes between police and the marchers. The students were protesting the shooting a week earlier of one of their leaders, Rudi Dutschke, outside the offices of the German Socialist Students Federation (SDS).
1971
$675,000,000,000,000 suit is bought against General Motors for polluting the country.
1986
U.S. bombs Libya
1988
Denmark declares its ports nuclear-free.
1988
The Soviet Union signed an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 