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| Iyar/Sivan, 5781 |
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Holidays, This Day in History |
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1 - International Workers Day
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Parashat Behar- Bechukotai |
3 - In 1971, the first episode of NPR's "All Things Considered" was aired.
4 - Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre
5- Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, Germany.
5 - Biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
6 - Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman started the No Conscription League in the USA in 1916 |
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10 - Yom Yerushalayim/Jerusalem Day
12 - Rosh Chodesh Sivan
10 - Nelson Mandela inaugurated into office in 1994
15 - Julia Ward Howe proposed the first Mother's Day as a peace holiday in 1870.
15 - International Conscientious Objector Day
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17 - Shavuot 1
18 - Shavuot 2
16 - The Nazis crushed the Jewish uprising of the Warsaw ghetto after a month of bloody fighting. 56,000 died in the struggle.
17 - Brown v. Board of Education ruling proclaimed by SCOTUS in 1954
17 - "Cantonsville Nine" activists broken into a a draft board center, burning over 600 draft files. |
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23 - US General Winfield Scott began the forced removal of Cherokees in 1838.
24 - Israeli troops completed their withdrawal from Southern Lebanon in 2000
26 - 20k Israeli Jews and Palestinians participated in a peace rally in Tel Aviv in 1991
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31 - Walt Whitman born in 1819 |
