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
- 1878 Edith Maud Ellis born Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1963). Quaker; absolute pacifist; daughter of MP. Served as president of British WILPF; led Friends Service Committee, counseling those who refused conscription during World War I; acted as mediator to end Korean War; published pamphlet A Challenge to Militarism, for which she was fined £150, spent 3 months in Holloway Prison.
- 1946 Anja Henriette Meulenbelt born Utrecht, Netherlands. Prominent feminist author and politician; Socialist member of Dutch parliament; promoted peace in Balkans and Palestine; recipient of Journalist for Peace Award, 2004.
Women's peacemaking on this day
- 1907 Maria Montessori opened her first school in Rome.
- 1929 Mother Teresa arrived in Calcutta to start her work with the poor.
- 1993 Maria Kirbasova led the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia into Chechnya.
- 2000 Eight Puerto Rican women, including actress Rosie Perez, arrested for climbing steps of US mission to the UN in protest of the bombing of Vieques.
- 2010 Poet and human rights activist Susana Chávez murdered in Juárez, Mexico.
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