Women peacemakers born today

1867 Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence born Bristol, England (d. 1954). Suffragist leader. Early member Fellowship of Reconciliation. Founding member, Women's Peace Party and WILPF.
1918 Albertina Sisulu born Tsomo, Transkei, South Africa. Organized anti-Apartheid movement, 1954; jailed for treason; banned 18 years.
1929 Ursula Le Guin born Berkeley, CA (d. 2018). Novelist; organized protests against nuclear bomb and Vietnam War.
1955 Umida Tukhtamuradovna Akhmedova born Parkent, Uzbekistan, USSR. Uzbek photographer. Convicted of state slander, 2010. Awarded Havel Human rights Prize, 2016.
1983 Zainab al-Khawaja born Damascus. Bahraini human rights activist.

Women's peacemaking on this day

1835 Maria Weston Chapman organized Boston women to prevent the lynching of abolitionist George Thompson.
1913 Start of Indian women’s nonviolent resistance Satyagraha; Transvaal women sold goods without license Vereeniging, crossing Natal border; five Natal women cross into Transvaal; 11 Indian women arrested, sentenced to 3 months hard labor.
1913 International conference on traffic in women, Brussels.
1913 Eleven Indian women arrested in Gandhi's South African satyagraha civil resistance and sentenced to three months hard labor.
1975 200 Israeli women protest civil rights bill with mock funeral, Tel Aviv.
1983 First Southern Women's Peace Camp at Savannah River Plutonium Plant; 31 women arrested.
1985 Okinawan women organized 60,000-person protest of American soldier’s rape of 12-year-old.
1999 Three women acquitted of Plowshares Trident protest on basis of 1996 World Court opinion against nuclear weapons.
1999 Women, Peace, and Conflict conference at Univ. Wisconsin, Platteville.
2000 Trident Plowshares trio acquitted in charges of damage to Mayfair nuclear facility by sheriff's statement: "I have to conclude that the three. . . were justified in thinking that Great Britain in their use of Trident could be construed as a threat and as such is an infringement of international and customary law."