Today in history

June 3

1900
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) was founded.

1946
US Supreme Court rules race separation on buses unconstitutional
1957
Linus Pauling and thousands of other scientists joined in a call for banning nuclear weapons testing. President Eisenhower rejected their plea.
“…Then on May 15, 1957, with the help of some of the scientists in Washington University, St. Louis, I wrote the Scientists’ Bomb Test Appeal, which within two weeks was signed by over two thousand American scientists and within a few months by 11,021 scientists, of forty-nine countries….”

Linus Paulng at a disarmament demonstration

Linus Pauling’s Nobel Peace Prize speech 1962

1964
Conscientious objection became legally recognized in Belgium.
a history of European conscientious objection

1967
Conscientious objection legally recognized in Belgium.

1972
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Sally J. Priesand, 25, became the first woman in Reform Judaism to be ordained as a rabbi.

1985
Appeal court in England rules that war tax resistance unlawful.