Today in history

Posted on July 9, 2006 | Leave a comment

(Sources: Peace Buttons, War Resisters League, and the Peace Center.)

July 9

1623
English negotiate treaty with Potomac River tribes; after a toast symbolizing eternal friendship, Chiskiack chief & 200 followers drop dead from poisoned wine.


1917
During World War I, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, leaders of the No-Conscription League, spoke out against the war and the draft. Both were found guilty in New York City of conspiracy against the draft, fined $10,000 each and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with the possibility of deportation at the end of their terms.

1955

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and seven other scientists warned that the development of weapons of mass destruction had created a choice between war and survival of the human species. The Russell-Einstein Manifesto was published in London .

read the manifesto

Bertrand Russell

1963

Arinell Ponder of SCLC & 5 students arrested & beaten for using white Trailways bus bathrooms, Winona, Miss.


1984

150,000 march in London, England for nuclear disarmament, protest Cruise missiles.

1993

Police ban vigil of Women in Black, Belgrade, Serbia.


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