Women peacemakers born today

• 1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson born Philadelphia, PA (d. 1932). "America's Joan of Arc"; Quaker; playwright and orator; Garrisonian abolitionist.

• 1867 Nivedita (née Margaret Noble) born Dungannon, Tyrone, Ireland (d. 1911). Teacher; author and orator; disciple of Vivekananda, 1898; nonviolent anarchist; militant Indian nationalist.

• 1876 Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton born Lynchburg, VA (d. 1968). Internationalist; doctor for hospitals and schools in Serbia; President of Zonta; founder of American Women's Hospitals, 1917.

• 1939 Jane Alexander (née Quigley) born Boston, MA. Actress; leader of WAND; opposed Vietnam War.

Women's peacemaking on this day

• 1908 Suffragist Muriel Matters interrupted House of Commons with protest.

• 1911 Belgian Alliance of Women for Peace through Education founded in Brussels.

• 1916 5,000 Australian women protested war and conscription, Melbourne.

• 1942 Mary Wooley organized the first meeting of women on postwar peace, New York City.

• 1986 300 women occupied Statue of Liberty in "Women Take Liberty '86," first national event of Women Rising in Resistance.

• 1992 Belgrade Women in Black protest: "They have been ceaselessly killing, torturing and raping for a year and a half already. They have banished more than three million lives. They manipulate women. Blackmail men. They spread hate, destruction and death; we are left without words to express our horror and anger... People die by the minute."