...but now the time has come for man to experiment with nonviolence in all areas of human conflict, and that means nonviolence on an international scale.
In 1790
- Jean Baptist Pointe Desable, a French speaking Santo Domingo native, becomes the first permanent resident and thus founder of Chicago.
In 2009
- Alysa Stanton becomes the first African-American woman ever to be ordained as a rabbi and the first African-American rabbi to lead a majority white congregation