| September 29, 1923 Great Britain began to govern the formerly Turkish province of Palestine under a League of Nations mandate to create a Jewish national home. The British Mandate For Palestine established at the San Remo Conference, 1920 (Note from A: I searched this link; the one Peace History had was no longer present on the site.) |
| September 29, 1943 Six conscientious objectors, imprisoned at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, for refusing to serve in World War II, began a hunger strike against censorship of mail and reading material by federal prison authorities. |
| September 29, 1983 The municipal council of Woensdrecht, a southern Dutch town, voted against cooperating in the possible siting of 48 U.S. nuclear-tipped cruise missiles at the nearby air base. The council voted Tuesday by 9 to 4 not to cooperate with the national government, and to stop any activities that might lead to the missiles being sited at the base. |
September 29, 2002![]() A London crowd – estimated between 200,000 and 500,000 – protested British and U.S. plans for a “preemptive” (that is, without provocation) invasion of Iraq. |
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