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
- 1890 Mildred Scott Olmsted born Glenolden, PA (d. 1990). Quaker peace activist; delivered Quaker relief in Germany, 1919; WILPF US national organization secretary, 1935; WILPF Executive Director, 1954-66.
- 1902 Mary Guillian Smieton born Cambridge, England (d. 2005). International personnel expert; UN Undersecretary, 1946; first Director of UN Personnel, 1946; board of International Civil Service Commission; UK representative to UNESCO, 1968.
Women's peacemaking on this day
- 1983 Expert Meeting on Women & Peace, Vienna, through 9th.
- 1983 Trial of Puget Sound Women for talking to Boeing workers.
- 1999 Peace activist Helen Clark elected New Zealand Prime Minister.
- 2000 Three women arrested in Nashua, NH for protest against British Aerospace.
- 2005 Reta Kaur sentenced for Melbourne protest.
- 2005 Diane Wilson arrested in Houston for environmental protest.
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