January 1
World Peace Day
New Years Day
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December 31
Eid al-Adha
New Year’s Eve
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December 30
1936
The United Automobile Workers sat down at General Motors in Flint, Michigan.
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December 29
1890
The U.S. Army killed approximately 400 Oglala Sioux at Wounded Knee, in the new state of South Dakota. The 7th Cavalry (Custer’s old command) fired their artillery amidst women, children, and fleeing men. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the final major military battle in the genocide against Native Americans. 18 soldiers received Congressional Medals of Honor for their “bravery.”
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December 28
1973
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, is published in the original Russian version in Paris.
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December 27
1914
The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), an inter-religious peace group, is founded in Cambridge, Great Britain.
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December 25
Christmas
1875
Birth of Jessie Wallace Hughan, founder of the War Resisters League.
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December 24
1865
Months after the fall of the Confederacy and the end of slavery, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee called the Ku Klux Klan.
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December 23
1944
General Dwight Eisenhower endorsed the finding of a court-martial in the case of Eddie Slovik, who was tried for desertion, and authorized his execution, the first such sentence against a U.S. Army soldier since the Civil War, and the only man so punished during World War II.
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 