| January
1 |
One
Day In Peace
Lakhdar
Brahimi born in Algeria, 1934
Country
Joe McDonald born in California, 1942
Katrina
vanden Heuvel born in New York, 1960
National
Holiday of Cuba, Haiti, Sudan
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| January
2 |
Daisaku
Ikeda born in Japan, 1928
Isaac
Asimov born in Russia, 1920
Leaders
of the 3 warring factions in Bosnia met for peace discussions,
1993
|
| January
3 |
Lucretia
Mott born in Nantucket, Mass., 1793
Millard
Fuller born in Alabama, 1935
Liya
Kebede born in Ethiopia, 1980
The
UN Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights came into
force, 1976
|
| January
4 |
Selena
Butler born in Georgia, 1872
William
Deane born in Australia, 1931
Michael
Stipe born in Georgia, 1960
National
Holiday of Myanmar
UN
Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination in force, 1969
|
| January
5 |
Francesco
Suarez, pioneer of international law, born in Granada, Spain
1548 |
| January
6 |
'No
More War' movement founded in London, 1921 |
| January
7 |
Zora
Nale Hurston born in Alabama, 1891
Kenny
Loggins born in Washington, 1948
Meetings
of the Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Canberra,
Australia, 1996
|
| January
8 |
A.
J. Muste born in the Netherlands, 1885
Emily
Greene Balch born in Massachusetts,
1867
Lewis
Lapham born in California, 1835
President
Lyndon Johnson declared a War On Poverty, 1964
|
| January
9 |
Carrie
Chapman Catt born in Wisconsin, 1859
Simone
de Beauvoir born in France, 1908
Sunderlal
Bahuguna born in India, 1927
Joan
Baez born in Staten Island, N.Y., 1941
Rigoberta
Menchu Tum born in Guatemala, 1959
|
| January
10 |
Women's
Suffrage Amendment introduced in Congress, 1878
League
of Nations founded with 50 nations signing covenant to avoid war,
1920
First
session of UN General Assembly with 51 nations represented, Central
Hall, London 1946
|
| January
11 |
UN
Disarmament Commission set up 1952
Alice
Paul born in New Jersey, 1885
Aldo
Leopold born in Iowa, 1887
Betty
Bumpers born in Arkansas, 1925
Jim
Hightower born in Texas, 1943
Mary
J. Blige born in New York, 1971
Amanda
Peet born in New York, 1972
|
| January
12 |
Genocide Convention came into force, 1951 |
| January
13 |
Ernestine
Rose born in Poland, 1810
Melvin
Jones born in Arizona, 1879
International
Convention on total prohibition of chemical weapons signed in
Paris 1993
|
| January
14 |
Hannah
Solomon born in Chicago, Illinois, 1858
Albert
Schweitzer born in Alsace-Lorraine, 1875
Julian
Bond born in Tennessee, 1940
Carol
Bellamy born in New Jersey, 1942
Precursor
to UNESCO Committee for International Cooperation, first world
cultural organization, founded, Geneva 1922
|
| January
15 |
Martin
Luther King Jr. born in Atlanta, 1929
|
| January
16 |
Susan
Sontag born in New York, 1933
Jeff
Skoll born in Montreal, Canada, 1965
Religious
Freedom Day - Virginia adopted religious freedom statute drafted
by Thomas Jefferson, ultimately the model for the 1st Amendment,
1786
Civil
Service was created by US Congress, 1883
|
| January
17 |
Benjamin
Franklin born in Massachusetts, 1706
Robert
Maynard Hutchins born in New York, 1899
Muhammad
Ali born in Kentucky, 1942
Robert
Kennedy, Jr. born in Washington, DC, 1954
|
| January
18 |
Kenneth
Boulding born in Liverpool, England, 1910
Danny
Kaye born in New York, 1913
John
Hume born in Northern Ireland, 1937
Bernie
Glassman born in New York, 1939
|
| January
19 |
Martin
Luther King Day of Service [3rd
Monday]
Edgar
Helms born in New York, 1863
Javier
Pérez de Cuéllar born in Peru, 1920
Dolly
Parton born in Tennessee, 1946
Helen
Mack Chang born in Guatemala, 1952
|
| January
20 |
James
Farmer born in Texas, 1920
United
Nations University (UNU) inaugurated, Tokyo 1975
|
| January
21 |
Roger
Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties
Union, born in Massachusetts, 1884
Richie
Havens born in New York, 1941
|
| January
22 |
U
Thant, third UN Secretary-General, born Pantanaw, Burma
1909
Bruno
Kreisky, born in Austria, 1911
|
| January
23 |
United
Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) first meeting, London,
1946 |
| January
24 |
Doris
"Granny D" Haddock born in New Hampshire, 1910
Michio
Kaku born in California, 1947
International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) established in Vienna, first act of
United Nations General Assembly 1946
|
| January
25 |
Peace
Conference at Versailles endorsed project of a League of Nations
1919
Amy
Domini born in New York, 1950
|
| January
26 |
Australia
Day; Republic Day, India
Sean
MacBride born in Paris, 1904
Paul
Newman born in Ohio, 1925
Angela
Davis born in Alabama, 1944
|
| January
27 |
Samuel
Gompers born in London, England, 1850
Donna
Reed born in Iowa, 1921
Federico
Mayor born in Barcelona, Spain, 1934
Father
Roy Bourgeois born in Louisiana, 1938
Mairead
Corrigan Maguire born
in Northern Ireland, 1944
James
Cromwell born in California,
1945
Asma
Jahangir born in Pakistan, 1952
*
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of
the Holocaust
|
| January
28 |
Sarah
McLachlan born in Canada, 1968
United
Nations Security Council resolution for cease-fire in Indonesia
and request for independence from the Netherlands, 1948
|
| January
29 |
Freethinker's
Day
Thomas
Paine born in England, 1737
Edward
Abbey born in Pennsylvania, 1927
Oprah
Winfrey born in Mississippi, 1954
|
| January
30 |
Season
For Nonviolence (Jan 30-April 4)
World
Court first met at The Hague 1922
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt born in New York, 1882
Saul
Alinsky born in Chicago, IL, 1909
Fred
Korematsu born in California, 1919
Martin
Almada born in Paraguay, 1937
Maria
Julia Hernandez born in Guatemala, 1939
|
| January
31 |
Thomas
Merton born in France, 1915
Alva
Myrdal born in Sweden, 1902
Stewart
Udall born in Arizona, 1920
Ken
Wilber born in Oklahoma, 1949
Akbar
Ganji born in Iran, 1960
National
Holiday of Nauru
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