Monday December 3, 2007, 6:58 am
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Monday December 3, 2007, 5:49 pm
December 3, 1965-An all-white jury in Alabama convicted three Ku Klux Klansmen for the murder of white civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo.-Viola Liuzzo
The mother of five from Detroit was shot and killed while driving a young black activist, Leroy Moton, back to the town of Selma following a protest march to the state capital in Montgomery. It was later learned that another Klansmen in the car, Gary Thomas Rowe, was an FBI informant

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:50 pm
December 3, 1997- An international treaty banning land mines was signed by 122 countries. It comprehensively prohibits the use, production, trade or stockpiling of antipersonnel mines. Buried landmines kill about 15,000 people every year worldwide. The dangerous and time-consuming process of removal would take centuries at the current rate of landmine clearance

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:50 pm
December 4, 1833-The American Anti-Slavery Society was formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia. He and his brother Lewis were active abolitionists throughout their lives, including providing legal defense for the Africans who mutinied on the slave ship Amistad

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:51 pm
December 4, 1969-Pres. Richard Nixon, Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew and 40 U.S. governors embarked on a fact-finding mission to discover the causes of the generation gap. They viewed films of "simulated acid trips" and listened to hours of "anti-establishment rock music."

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:51 pm
December 4, 1969

Black Panther party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police officers with cooperation from the FBI. -Hampton founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party at the age of 20. He led in establishing Breakfast for Children program and a free health clinic on the west side of the City. A main purpose of the Panthers was to resist police violence.

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:52 pm
December 5, 1955
Five days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, the African-American community of Montgomery, Alabama, launched their boycott of the city's bus system.The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was formed to coordinate the boycott with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., elected as its president

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:53 pm
December 6, 1865-Georgia provided the final vote needed for the 13th Amendment to become part of the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:54 pm
December 6, 1998In Venezuela, former Lt. Col. Hugo Chavez, who had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier, was elected president. As a socialist reformer, Chavez’s policies have given land to the landless and, using Venezuela’s oil revenues, increased investment in housing and infrastructure

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:54 pm
December 7, 1964 A leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio, was arrested. One-third of the 27,000 students at the University of California campus, along with faculty, were on strike to protect their first amendment right to distribute political literature and to organize on campus. A faculty resolution passed 824-115, supporting the rapidly growing Free Speech Movement

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:54 pm
December 7, 1964 A leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio, was arrested. One-third of the 27,000 students at the University of California campus, along with faculty, were on strike to protect their first amendment right to distribute political literature and to organize on campus. A faculty resolution passed 824-115, supporting the rapidly growing Free Speech Movement

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:55 pm
December 7, 1993
Four Plowshares activists were arrested for disarming an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:56 pm
December 8, 1941Jeanette Rankin (R-Montana), the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1916, cast the only vote opposing declaration of war against Japan, despite their attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day. She had also voted against the U.S. entering the first world war, then hopefully called the war to end all wars.

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:56 pm
December 8, 1953

U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower addressed the United Nations General Assembly, proposing the creation of a new U.N. atomic energy agency which would receive contributions of uranium from the United States, the USSR, and other countries "principally concerned," and would put this material to peaceful use.

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:57 pm
December 8, 1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers. The Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty eliminated and banned all ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with a range of 300-3,400 miles (500-5,500 kilometers). By May 1991, all intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles, launchers, and related support had been eliminated

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:57 pm
December 8, 1988 Intermediate Nuclear Force vehicle
On the first anniversary of the INF (Intermediate Nuclear Force) Treaty, twelve Dutch peace activists, calling themselves "INF Ploughshares," cut through fences to enter the Woensdrecht Air Force base in The Netherlands. They made their way to cruise missile bunkers where they hammered on the missiles, carrying out the first disarmament action in Holland

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:58 pm
December 9, 1917British troops, known as the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and under the command of Gen. Edmund Allenby, entered Jerusalem, ending 700 years of Muslim rule of the city, 400 under the Ottoman Turks. The Turkish army withdrew, the city surrendered without a battle.
Thus began 30 years of British control over Palestine

Monday December 3, 2007, 5:59 pm
December 7, 1964 A leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio, was arrested. One-third of the 27,000 students at the University of California campus, along with faculty, were on strike to protect their first amendment right to distribute political literature and to organize on campus. A faculty resolution passed 824-115, supporting the rapidly growing Free Speech Movement

Monday December 3, 2007, 6:00 pm
December 9, 1961Members of the National Committee of 100, a movement of non-violent resistance to nuclear war and to the manufacture and use of all weapons of mass extermination, joined with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and held demonstrations at various U.S. air and nuclear bases in Britain.
Members of the Committee of 100, including Bertrand Russell, considered civil disobedience a legitimate means in their struggle. The CND avoided all illegal activities

Monday December 3, 2007, 6:00 pm
December 9, 1990

Solidarity trade union founder and leader Lech Walesa won Poland's presidential runoff election in a 3-1 landslide. He thus became the first directly elected Polish leader.
Poland first became an independent country at the end of World War I.

Monday December 3, 2007, 9:21 pm
Thanks Sunshine!:)

Monday December 3, 2007, 9:21 pm
Thanks Sunshine!:)

Tuesday December 4, 2007, 4:40 am
Noted. Thanks Sunshine :)