(Sources: Peace Buttons, War Resisters League, and the Peace Center.)
June 23
1683
A treaty is signed between William Penn and the chiefs of the Lenni Lenape tribe in Shakamaxon, Pennsylvania.
1972
Education Amendments of 1972 becomes law. Prohibits any discrimination at Educational institutions based on sex
1972
Life magazine published photos of South Vietnamese children running from Napalm, an incendiary weapon used widely by U.S. forces to burn down the jungle and eliminate cover for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. Napalm, a sticky mixture of gasoline, polystyrene and benzene that burns at very high temperature, had been used in WWII and Korea.
Read about this picture.
1973
The International Court of Justice granted an injunction, requested by Australia and New Zealand governments, against French nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific.
The International Court of Justice granted an injunction, requested by Australia and New Zealand governments, against French nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 