On this day in ...

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1971 (40 years ago today), a dozen members of the
Don't Make a Wave Committee chartered the
Phyllis Cormack, a small halibut vessel, from Canada's Vancouver Island to the Aleutian Island of Amchitka, in Alaska, in order to protest the United States' underground testing of a 5.2-megaton nuclear bomb. Re
named Greenpeace on this day, the nongovernmental organization continues to work against nuclear weapons and other activities that harm the world's oceans. (Prior
posts)
(logo credit)(Prior September 15 posts are here, here, here, and here.)
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