Reclaim Our History
Mar. 10. 1898. Birth of Hazel Wolf, famous activist (see p. 1). 1913: Death
of Harriet Tubman, self-liberated slave and Underground Railroad organizer.
Mar. 11. 1926: George Lansbury proposes in Parliament abolition of Royal
Navy, Britain. 1930: Gandhi's Salt March begins. 1968: Polish students
battle Communist state police, Warsaw.
Mar. 12. 295: Maximilian beheaded for refusing military service, Thevesta,
North Africa. 1930: Gandhi begins march from Ahmadabad to Delhi, India, in
protest against salt tax. 1979: Grenadan revolution begins.
Mar. 13. 1945: Pax Christi founded, France. 1968: Clouds of nerve gas drift
outside the Army's Dugway Proving Grounds in Provo, Utah, poisoning 6,400
sheep in nearby Skull Valley. 1988: 500 Palestinian police resign in
protest of Israeli policies in occupied territory.
Mar. 14. 1879: Birth of Albert Einstein, scientist and pacifist. 1990: Sixteen disabled rights activists arrested at the U.S. Capitol demanding
passage of what would become the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Mar. 15. 1953: Joseph Stalin dies in his sleep, Moscow, USSR. 1985: Two-to-one vote against construction of new nuclear power plant,
Bakersfield, California.
Mar. 16. 1921: War Resisters International founded, London. 1965: U.S.
Supreme Court extends rights of conscientious objection. 1968: Hundreds of
Vietnamese civilians massacred by U.S. troops at My Lai, Vietnam. 1988: Massacre of Kurds with mustard and nerve gases, Halabja, Iraq.
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