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This week's show looks at the Christmas truces.

Resources here:

http://davidswanson.org/christmastruce

Olympic truce here:

https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=13181

January 15. On this day in 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born.

January 14. On this day in 1892 Martin Niemöller was born.

January 12. On this day in 1970 Biafra, the breakaway region in southeastern Nigeria, surrendered to the Federal Army, thus ending the Nigerian Civil War.

January 11. On this day in 2002, Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp began operating in Cuba.

January 10. On this day in 1920 the League of Nations was founded.

January 9. On this day in 1918, the U.S. fought its last battle with Native Americans at the Battle of Bear Valley.

January 8. On this day, A.J. Muste (1885 - 1967), a Dutch-born American, began his life.

January 6. On this day in 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a speech that introduced the term “Four Freedoms,” which he said included freedom of speech and expression; freedom of religion; freedom from fear; and freedom from want.

January 3. On this day in 1967, Jack Ruby, the convicted killer of President John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Texas prison.