| October 26, 1916 Margaret Sanger and her sister were arrested for disseminating birth control information at her Brownsville Clinic in Brooklyn; she was arrested again a few weeks later for the same reason and the police shut the clinic down within 10 days. Margaret Sanger |
October 26, 1970 Garry Trudeau, 1976“Doonesbury”, a cartoon series addressing political and social issues written by Garry Trudeau, and initially published in a the Yale Daily News when Trudeau was a student, debuted in 28 newspapers. |
| October 26, 1986 President Ronald Reagan vetoed a bill passed by the Congress that would have imposed trade sanctions on the racially separatist apartheid regime of South Africa. |
| October 26, 1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and Jordanian Prime Minister Abdelsalam al-Majali, with President Clinton in attendance, formally signed a peace treaty ending 46 years of war at a ceremony in the desert area of Wadi Araba on the Israeli-Jordanian border. President of Israel Ezer Weizman shook hands with Jordan’s King Hussein. ![]() Read more |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryoctober.htm#october26
Margaret Sanger
Garry Trudeau, 1976
LOL ~ I have, right here in my hand but usually on my desk between Sun Tzu and Asimov’s Understanding Physics, a copy of 1970 Yale Press print of Still A Few Bugs In The System, the first Doonesbury “book”. One of a handful of books I’ve managed to hold onto since the seventies
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