Women peacemakers born today

• 1857 Martha Carey Thomas born Baltimore, MD (d. 1935). Feminist; president of Bryn Mawr College; reviver of Quaker Peace Testimony; co-founder of International Federation of University Women, 1919.

• 1886 Elise "Ottar" Ottesen-Jensen born Høyland, Norway (d. 1973). Pioneering feminist; anarcho-pacifist; founded International Planned Parenthood, 1952.

• 1900 Mildred Osterhout Fahrni born Rapid City, Canada (d. 1992). Gandhian; Socialist; absolute pacifist; friend of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Leader of FOR and WILPF; opposed World War II; worked with pacifist Dukhobors.

• 1982 Dalia Ziada born Cairo, Egypt. Nonviolent activist; poet. Leader of 2011 Arab Spring protests at Tahrir Square.

Women's peacemaking on this day

• 1243 Death of Blessed Ortolana, mother of Saints Clare and Agnes, whom she followed in Franciscan mission of peace.

• 1910 Mass rally at New York's Carnegie Hall, in support of 370 female garment workers who were arrested.

• 1913 Alice Paul founded National American Woman Suffrage Association.

• 1983 Italian women blocked Comiso airbase in nonviolent protest.

• 1996 100,000 Bangladeshi women rallied in Dacca to protest Islamist clerics' attacks on women's education and employment.