Women peacemakers born today

• 1890 Carmelita Hinton (née Chase) born Omaha, NE (d. 1983). American internationalist educator; led Jane Addams Centennial; Hull House associate; founded Putney School, 1935.

• 1924 Dadi Prakashmani born Hyderabad, India. Spiritual leader of Brahma Kumaris. Awarded UN Peace Medal for Million Minutes for Peace, 1984.

• 1933 Rosalie Sorrels born Boise, ID. Anti-Vietnam War folk singer; sang protest songs "Enola Gay," "I Will Not Obey," "Trooper's Lament," "Killing Ground."

Women's peacemaking on this day

• 1908 Gandhi read speech of 20 year-old Sonia Schlesin at opening of Satyagraha campaign in a Johannesburg mosque.

• 1911 Emma Goldman co-founded Modern School, New York.

• 1919 First meeting of Fight the Famine Council opposing allied food blockade, organized by Dorothy Buxton and Eglantine Judd.

• 1919 Edith Ainge led watchfire demonstration at White House for women's suffrage.

• 1953 Mildred Norman left Pasadena, CA to begin 25,000-mile peace pilgrimage.

• 1975 International Women's Year began (logo http://bit.ly/zlTsUq)

• 1979 Mary Evelyn Jegen named first national coordinator of Pax Christi.

• 1983 Greenham Common protesters stage a dance against installation of American cruise missiles.

• 1992 Greenham women stage another dance in protest of American cruise missiles.

• 1999 "Granny D" Doris Haddock began 3,200-mile cross-country peace walk, starting from Pasadena, CA.m

• 2000 Sue Frankel-Streit & Moana Cole, members of ANZUS Peace Force Ploughshares, damaged a B-52 bomber at Griffiss Air Force Base in civil disobedience. They were later sentenced to a one-year prison term.

• 2000 Maria Otero named president and CEO of microfinance organization Acción.

• 2010 Women Say Free Gaza issued Cairo Declaration.

• 2011 Nine women, aged 40 to 91, arrested for bringing solar panels to the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor.