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Eugene V. Debs was imprisoned for his role in the Pullman railway strike in Woodstock, Illinois.

Pullman strike and the Origin of Labor Day
1978
Four thousand protesters occupied the Trident nuclear submarine base site in Bangor, Washington.
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1984
Declaration of the Six-Nation Five Continent Peace Initiative.
“…the pursuit of peace must be uncoupled from strategies of nuclear deterrence,
and such strategies must be universally repudiated….” -Rajiv Ghandi, prime minister of India
