Happenings
- POTW exhibit at WSU through April 5, 2013
- POTW exhibit in Portland May 3 - June 14, 2013
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Women peacemakers born today
- 1806 Elizabeth Buffum Chace born Providence, RI (d. 1899). Radical pacifist and Quaker abolitionist, suffragist; conductor on underground railroad. Opposed Civil War, Spanish-American War.
- 1820 Mary Livermore (née Rice) born Boston, MA (d. 1905). American reformer; abolitionist; suffragist lecturer and journalist.
- 1949 Le Ly Hayslip born Ky La, Vietnam. Humanitarian, author; founded East Meets West Foundation to heal wounds of war, 1988; memoir Child of War, Woman of Peace published 1993.
Women's peacemaking on this day
- 1645 Lady Deborah Moody got patent of religious liberty, leading to first Quaker meeting in America.
- 2011 Three members of Femen abducted and beaten by Minsk security police for topless protests.
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