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March |
| 1-Mar |
In Salem, Massachusetts, the witch trials began. (1691) |
| 1-Mar |
Pennsylvania abolishes slavery. (1780) |
| 1-Mar |
First U.S. Census count includes slave & free Negroes. Indians were not included. (1790) |
| 1-Mar |
President Kennedy established the Peace Corps. (1961) |
| 1-Mar |
Nuclear Free Pacific Day to commemorate 2nd US hydrogen bomb dropped on Bikini Atoll. (1954) |
| 1-Mar |
Civil Rights Act enacted in US. (1875) |
| 1-Mar |
International Day of the Seal to promote awareness of the seal's peril. (since 1983) |
| 1-Mar |
Chicana Welfare Rights Organization is formed, with Alicia Escalante as director. (1968) |
| 1-Mar |
Women for Peace protest against militarism, Belgrade & Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. (1991) |
| 1-Mar |
15,000 demonstrate in Lunesburg against shipment of French nuclear waste to site in Gorleben. (1997) |
| 2-Mar |
Congress allows railroad companies blanket approval for rights- of-way through Indian lands. (1899) |
| 2-Mar |
Months before Rosa Parks, teenager Claudette Colvin is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person. (1955) |
| 3-Mar |
First U.S. draft law passes. Contains a clause providing draft exemption in exchange for a $300 -- a sum which only the rich could afford to pay. (1863) |
| 3-Mar |
Congress declares that all Native Americans are "wards of state," nullifying all treaties. (1871) |
| 3-Mar |
Over 5,000 women march on Washington to demand right to vote. (1913) |
| 3-Mar |
Village Council in Inuit town of Point Hope, in northwestern Alaska, objects in a letter to President Kennedy to chain explosion of five atomic bombs in nearby above-ground "Project Chariot" tests. (1961) |
| 3-Mar |
Chicano students walk out of Los Angeles high schools protesting racist policies. (1968) |
| 3-Mar |
Navajo & Hopi religious leaders request halt in construction of ski resort in the San Francisco Peaks, northern Arizona. (1981) |
| 4-Mar |
Suffragists, walking single file in Knightsbridge, London, smash every window they pass to protest government inaction. (1912) |
| 4-Mar |
Union of Concerned Scientists founded. (1969) |
| 4-Mar |
40,000 demonstrate against uranium enrichment plant, Almelo, Netherlands. (1978) |
| 5-Mar |
A nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect after 43 nations ratified it. (1970) |
| 5-Mar |
Ukraine, voluntarily agreeing to give up nuclear weapons, begins transfer of its nuclear stockpile to Russia. (1994) |
| 6-Mar |
Mexican troops defeat foreign slaveholders and mercenaries at the Alamo. (1836) |
| 6-Mar |
The Dred Scott decision is handed down by the Supreme Court. It ruled that African-Americans are not full citizens, and an escaped slave could not sue for his freedom. (1857) |
| 6-Mar |
Susan B. Anthony & more than 100 other suffragists present President Chester Arthur with a demand that he support women's right to vote. (1884) |
| 6-Mar |
Muhammad Ali is ordered by the Selective Service to be inducted. He refuses, citing his religious beliefs preclude him from killing others. (1967) |
| 6-Mar |
In Palestine, hundreds demonstrate for an end to all violence. (1996) |
| 7-Mar |
A march by civil rights demonstrators in Selma, AL, was broken up by state troopers and a sheriff's posse. (1965) |
| 7-Mar |
Federal Court rules that a peace group must have the same access to students at high school career days as military recruiters. (1988) |
| 7-Mar |
Activists sit in to protest refusal of the Albany (New York) City Council to pass legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. (1988) |
| 7-Mar |
500 women march on the National Palace in Guatemala City.in a commemoration of state violence against women. (1996) |
| 8-Mar |
Thousands of workers in the NY needle trades (primarily women) demonstrate & begin a strike for higher wages, shorter workday & an end to child labor. Becomes the basis for International Women's Day. (1908) |
| 8-Mar |
International Women's Day. (Since 1945) |
| 8-Mar |
World Peace Council launches drive to ban all nuclear weapons. (1955) |
| 8-Mar |
First U.S. Combat troops enter Vietnam. (1965) |
| 8-Mar |
The Anti Apartheid movement held a mass lobby of the House of Commons in London to push for a firm stand against the government of South Africa. (1965) |
| 8-May |
40,000 rally against war in Lebanon, organized by Peace Now, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (1983) |
| 8-May |
La Ragnatela (Spider's Web) Women's Peace Camp created at Comiso, Sicily, Italy, the first overseas site for U.S. cruise missiles. (1983) |
| 8-May |
Women from Eastern & Western Europe invite all citizens to sign petition for denuclearization. (1985) |
| 9-Mar |
U.S. Supreme Court frees slaves who seized slave ship Amisted in 1839. (1841) |
| 9-Mar |
"Foodless Lunch" to publicize the plight of the hungry people of Europe held at Waldorf hotel in London. (1945) |
| 9-Mar |
The Supreme Court issues its New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, which said public officials who charged they'd been libeled could not recover damages for a report related to their official duties unless they proved actual malice on the part of the news organization. (1964) |
| 9-Mar |
CBS cancels the Smothers Brothers Hour after they refuse to censor a comment made by Joan Baez. She wanted to dedicate her song to her husband, David, who was about to go to jail for objecting to the draft. (1969) |
| 10-Mar |
Slavery abolished in China (1910) |
| 10-Mar |
Harriet Tubman Day, on the anniversary of her death in 1913 to honor her work freeing slaves. (1913) |
| 10-Mar |
500,000 demonstrate against affiliation with NATO, Madrid, Spain (1986) |
| 10-Mar |
Women resist mobilization of kinsmen, Tresnjevac, Serbia. (1992) |
| 11-Mar |
Gandhi's Salt March begins, from Ahmadabad to Delhi, in protest against salt tax. (1930) |
| 11-Mar |
The Rev. James Reeb, a Unitarian minister from Boston, was among many white clergyman who joined the Selma marchers after the attack by state troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Reeb was beaten to death by white men while he walked down a Selma, Ala. street. (1965) |
| 11-Mar |
Cesar Chavez ends 23-day fast for US farm workers. (1976) |
| 11-Mar |
Beginning of 10 days of direct actions at Nevada Test Site which result in over 2,200 arrests, the largest number of arrests at a political protest outside Washington, D.C. in U.S. history. (1988) |
| 12-Mar |
Maximilian, a Christian, beheaded by Romans for refusing military service, Thevesta, N. Africa. (295) |
| 12-Mar |
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) wins Lawrence, MA "Bread & Roses" textile strike after nine weeks involving 32,000 strikers. (1912) |
| 12-Mar |
Ann Frank dies at Bergen-Belsen. (1945) |
| 12-Mar |
New York becomes the first state to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment. (1945) |
| 12-Mar |
Nearly a hundred Congressional Representatives & Senators sign the "Southern Manifesto," vowing to fight the Supreme Court school desegregation decision. (1956) |
| 12-Mar |
300 women workers stage slow-down at Control Data in Seoul, Korea, protesting the firing of their union president. (1982) |
| 12-Mar |
Pope John Paul II asks God's forgiveness for the sins of Roman Catholics through the ages, including wrongs inflicted on Jews, women and minorities. (2000) |
| 13-Mar |
First contingent of 14,030 Navajo reach Fort Sumner, New Mexico during the Long Walk of the Navajo, a 400-mile forced march in which thousands died. (1864) |
| 13-Mar |
Pax Christi founded, France. (1945) |
| 13-Mar |
Kitty Genovese stabbed to death in Queens, New York while Winston Mosley rapes & fatally stabs her in three separate attacks occurring over a period of more than half an hour. Although 38 people witness some or all of the crime, as Genovese cried for help, no one called for help until she was already dead, 35 minutes after the assault begins. (1964) |
| 13-Mar |
Clouds of nerve gas drift outside the Army's Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, poisoning 6,400 sheep in nearby Skull Valley. (1968) |
| 14-Mar |
Peace activist and scientist Albert Einstein born in Ulm, Germany. (1879) |
| 14-Mar |
National Civil Liberties Council founded in England. (1934) |
| 14-Mar |
Sixteen disabled rights activists arrested at the U.S. Capitol demanding passage of what would become the Americans With Disabilities Act. (1990) |
| 15-Mar |
First federal women's suffrage amendment ever introduced in U.S. Congress. (1869) |
| 15-Mar |
Finland became the first European country to allow women to vote. (1907) |
| 15-Mar |
Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia (1938) |
| 15-Mar |
78 protesters arrested during a second attempt by Native American activists to occupy Fort Lawton, demanding that Seattle give the unused facility back to Native Americans. (1970) |
| 15-Mar |
Activists across Britain stage supermarket protests against genetically engineered foods. (1997) |
| 15-Mar |
In a 14-page statement, the Vatican apologized for not doing more to prevent the murders of millions of Jews at the hands of the Nazis. (1998) |
| 16-Mar |
The first newspaper edited for and by African-Americans, Freedom's Journal, is published in New York. (1827) |
| 16-Mar |
Freedom of Information Day, on the anniversary of the birth of former president James Madison, who helped draft the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution. (1751) |
| 16-Mar |
War Resisters International founded. (1921) |
| 16-Mar |
My Lai Massacre (1968) |
| 17-Mar |
In London, at the largest Vietnam antiwar march in Britain to date, 25,000 people attempt to storm the American Embassy at Grosvenor Square. (1968) |
| 17-Mar |
3,000 Ethiopian women workers march for equal pay & better labor conditions. (1974) |
| 17-Mar |
30,000 march in Villahermosa, Mexico, in support of a campaign to blockade state-owned oil wells that had displaced thousands of poor people. (1996) |
| 18-Mar |
Tolpuddle Martyrs banished to Australia for union activities. (1843) |
| 18-Mar |
Beginning of Paris Commune. (1871) |
| 18-Mar |
202 African Americans sailed from Savannah, GA to make a new home in Monrovia, Liberia, an African colony formed by freed slaves. (1895) |
| 18-Mar |
Algeria becomes an independent nation after 130 years of coloniual rule. (1962) |
| 18-Mar |
The Supreme Court rules on Gideon v. Wainwright, holding states must supply free legal counsel to all poor persons facing criminal charges.(1963) |
| 18-Mar |
The first big oil spill: US supertanker "Torrey Canyon" runs aground off Land's End, Cornwall, England, releasing 119,000 tons of oil. (1967) |
| 19-Mar |
50 Greenwich Village folk artists protest Pete Seeger's blacklisting from the television show "Hootenanny." (1963) |
| 19-Mar |
43 arrested at Chase Manhattan Bank in NYC, protesting loans to South Africa (1965) |
| 19-Mar |
200 women seize the New York offices of "Ladies Home Journal," demanding what they call a "Women's Liberated Journal." (1970) |
| 19-Mar |
Cyprus: 4,500 join Women's Walk Home nonviolent crossing of Green Line partition. (1989) |
| 19-Mar |
50,000 march in Amsterdam to protest US deployment of the neutron bomb in Europe. (1978) |
| 20-Mar |
Switzerland declares perpetual neutrality (1815) |
| 20-Mar |
Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is first published. (1852) |
| 20-Mar |
Selma to Montgomery march begins. (1965) |
| 20-Mar |
Johann Sebastian Bach born. (1685) |
| 20-Mar |
In Australia 150,000 (1% of population) demonstrate in anti-nuclear rallies. (1983) |
| 21-Mar |
A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia. (1891) |
| 21-Mar |
69 killed in Sharpeville massacre by South African police. (1960) |
| 21-Mar |
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, United Nations (since 1966) |
| 21-Mar |
The newly wed John Lennon & Yoko Ono begin their famous "bed-in for peace" at the Amsterdam Hilton. (1969) |
| 21-Mar |
Menomonee activists take over courthouse in Kenosha, Wisc., demanding authorities investigate the beating of two women. (1977) |
| 22-Mar |
The Pilgrims and Massasoit Indians agree on a league of friendship. (1621) |
| 22-Mar |
Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico. (1873) |
| 22-Mar |
Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress. (1974) |
| 22-Mar |
30,000 march in Washington, DC against draft registration. (1980) |
| 22-Mar |
A boat piled with 3,168 tons of garbage begins a 162-day, 6,000-mile search for a port willing to take its load. After being rebuffed by 6 states & 3 countries, New York City agrees to burn the trash. (1987) |
| 23-Mar |
Trial of 101 Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World; IWW) begins in Chicago, for opposition to World War I. (1918) |
| 23-Mar |
The U.S. government begins moving native-born Americans of Japanese ancestry from their West Coast homes to imprisonment in detention centers. (1942) |
| 23-Mar |
Archbishop Romero assassinated, El Salvador (1980) |
| 23-Mar |
New Zealand: One thousand boats demonstrate against arrival of U.S.S. Queenfish, Auckland. (1984) |
| 24-Mar |
Willi Leddra executed in New England for being a Quaker. (1661) |
| 24-Mar |
Canadian women win the right to vote. (1918) |
| 24-Mar |
1,172 arrested in sit-down against nuclear weapons, Parliament Square, London, England. (1964) |
| 24-Mar |
First teach-in to oppose the Vietnam War held at University of Michigan (1965) |
| 24-Mar |
Martin Luther King, Jr., publicly announced his strong opposition to the Vietnam War. (1967) |
| 24-Mar |
US and NATO begin 78 days of bombing in Yugoslavia (1999) |
| 24-Mar |
The Exxon Valdez runs aground (1989) |
| 25-Mar |
Toronto printers strike for the 9-hour day -- the first major strike in Canada. (1872) |
| 25-Mar |
Coxey's "Army" heads peacefully from Ohio for Washington DC, demanding economic reform. (1894) |
| 25-Mar |
Triangle shirtwaist fire kills 145 in New York City,stirring public outrage and spurs workplace safety reform.(1911) |
| 25-Mar |
Sisterhood of International Peace founded in Australia. (1915) |
| 25-Mar |
Viola Gregg Liuzo, a housewife and mother from Detroit, drove alone to Alabama to help with the Selma march after seeing televised reports of the attack at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. She was driving marchers back to Selma from Montgomery when she was shot and killed by a Klansmen in a passing car. (1965) |
| 25-Mar |
Britain abolished the slave trade. (1807) |
| 25-Mar |
30,000 in Children's March for Survival, Washington, D.C., protesting welfare cuts. (1972) |
| 26-Mar |
First Jews Boarded on Trains for Auschwitz. (1942) |
| 26-Mar |
Over 50,000 march in Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade in New York City. (1966) |
| 26-Mar |
New York City Central Park Love-In, 10,000 show up. (1967) |
| 26-Mar |
John & Yoko Ono-Lennon start seven day bed-in against the Vietnam War. (1969) |
| 26-Mar |
500 fast against construction of nuclear reactors, Switzerland. (1978) |
| 26-Mar |
Israeli-Egyptian Peace Agreement Signed (1979) |
| 26-Mar |
US Supreme Court upholds a ruling that an Oklahoma law permitting the dismissal of teachers for speaking out on gay rights is unconstitutional. (1986) |
| 26-Mar |
More than 3,000 people flee ethnic violence in Burundi, Africa. (1995) |
| 27-Mar |
Blacks stage ride-ins on Charleston, SC street cars; 2 months later, railway company integrates. (1867) |
| 27-Mar |
20,000 Buddhists in silent march for peace, Hue, South Vietnam. (1966) |
| 27-Mar |
The first Chicano Youth Liberation Conference is held by the Crusade for Justice; the poet known as Alurista presents his poem on the myth of Aztlán, which captures the imagination of the conference. (1969) |
| 27-Mar |
Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, PA. (1979) |
| 28-Mar |
NY State abolished slavery. (1799) |
| 28-Mar |
Canada: 2,000 demonstrate against conscription, in Quebec. (1918) |
| 28-Mar |
300 arrested in sit-down protest at U.S. Air Force headquarters, Ruislip. (1964) |
| 28-Mar |
Martin Luther King, Jr.calls for boycott of Alabama. (1965) |
| 28-Mar |
US Senators Frank Church & George McGovern come out against the Vietnam War. (1965) |
| 28-Mar |
Spanish university students march against fascist government of Generalissimo Franco. (1968) |
| 28-Mar |
Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march by striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn. Violence at the march persuades King to return to Memphis the following week. (1968) |
| 28-Mar |
In the worst nuclear disaster in US history, a Three Mile Island cooling unit fails, leading to a meltdown that uncovers the reactor's core. (1979) |
| 29-Mar |
First American forestry legislation enacted, Plymouth Colony. (1626) |
| 29-Mar |
African-American men gain right to vote, 15th Amendment. (1870) |
| 29-Mar |
Black leaders protest the showing of D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, scheduled to open at the Rialto Theatre in Charleston on April 1, on the grounds it violated a 1919 state law prohibiting any entertainment which demeaned another race. (1925) |
| 29-Mar |
Nicaragua: Vietnam Veterans For Peace, marching from Jinotega, reach Wicuili. (1987) |
| 30-Mar |
Closure of shops in protest against Rowlatt Bills begins, New Delhi. (1919) |
| 30-Mar |
After years of struggle and a nationwide boycott, the United Farm Workers sign the first table-grape contract with two of California's largest grape growers. (1970) |
| 30-Mar |
In the Philippines, 10,000 demonstrate against Marcos. (1978) |
| 30-Mar |
80,000 demonstrate against nuclear power, Wackersdorf, Germany. (1980) |
| 31-Mar |
10-hour workday established for federal public works employees. (1840) |
| 31-Mar |
Dalai Lama Begins Exile. (1959) |
| 31-Mar |
Cesar Chavez born. (1927) |
| 31-Mar |
Gandhi begins nonviolent campaign for temple entry, Vykom. (1924) |
| 31-Mar |
Jews Expelled from Spain. (1492) |
| 31-Mar |
2,500 Berkeley students turn in draft cards. (1970) |
| 31-Mar |
300,000 demonstrate in peace rallies throughout Australia. (1985) |
| 31-Mar |
Five Plowshares activists hammer missile launching cones on nuclear Navy ship, Milwaukee. (1991) |
| 31-Mar |
Four East Timorese arrested in Warton, at the British Aerospace factory where Indonesian Hawk fighter jets, used in the ongoing occupation & genocide of their homeland, are built. (1997) |
| 31-Mar |
President Lyndon Johnson announces he will not seek reelection, orders partial bombing halt in Vietnam & appoints Averell Harriman to seek negotiated peace talks with North Vietnam. (1968) |
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