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After a long and rewarding IT career, I'm devoting my time to helping make the world a kinder place. I also try to encourage critical thinking and listening.
This Day in the History of Kindness, August 5 On August 5, 1942, Polish-Jewish pediatrician, author, and educator Janusz Korczak chose to stay with the nearly 200 children of his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage when Nazi forces ordered them deported to Treblinka to be murdered.
This Day in the History of Kindness, August 4 On this day in 1347, after an eleven-month siege, six leading citizens of Calais stepped forward to save their city.
This Day in the History of Kindness, August 3 On this day in 1905, Maggie Kuhn was born. After being forced into retirement at age 65, she founded the Gray Panthers, a movement that challenged age discrimination and advocated for the dignity, independence, and well-being of older adults.
This Day in the History of Kindness, August 2 On this day in 1905, the first World Esperanto Congress opened in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, bringing together people from more than 20 countries who shared an unusual dream: that better communication could help build a more peaceful world.
This Day in the History of Kindness, August 1 On this day in 1907, Robert Baden-Powell opened an experimental camp on Brownsea Island in England that became the beginning of the worldwide Scout Movement.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 31 On July 31, 1937, Mahatma Gandhi published his revolutionary vision for Nai Talim in Harijan, arguing that true education must nurture the "body, mind, and spirit" rather than rely solely on rote literacy.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 30 On this day in 1987, wildlife biologists captured the last remaining wild California condors, bringing the entire species into a carefully managed breeding program.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 29 On July 29, 1970, major California table grape growers gathered in Delano to sign historic collective bargaining agreements with the United Farm Workers, bringing a victorious end to a grueling five-year strike.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 28 On July 28, 1975, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the grizzly bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, stepping in as hunting and habitat loss pushed lower-48 populations down to fewer than 800 bears.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 27 On July 27, 1921, Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated insulin at the University of Toronto, turning Type 1 diabetes overnight from a fatal sentence into a manageable condition.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 26 On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act into law, establishing sweeping civil rights protections for tens of millions of people.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 25 On July 25, 1960, after nearly six months of disciplined student sit-ins and community boycotts, the manager of the Greensboro Woolworth’s officially desegregated the store’s famous lunch counter.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 24 On July 24, 1851, the British Parliament officially repealed the infamous Window Tax, which had levied fees on properties based on their number of windows for over 150 years.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 23 On July 23, 1982, the International Whaling Commission voted to enact a global moratorium on commercial whaling, marking one of the most significant conservation victories of the 20th century.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 22 On this day in 1982, Nancy Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in memory of her sister, Susan G. Komen, who had died of breast cancer at the age of 36.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 21 On July 21, 1896, Black women leaders including Mary Church Terrell, Harriet Tubman, and Ida B. Wells united to form the National Association of Colored Women.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 20 On this day in 1968, the first International Special Olympics Games opened at Soldier Field in Chicago.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 19 On July 19, 1848, a small chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, became the birthplace of a revolution as three hundred citizens gathered for the nation’s first formal women’s rights convention.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 18 On this day in 1948, during the Berlin Airlift, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen made his first candy drop for children living in blockaded West Berlin.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 17 On this day in 1997, Gary Haugen founded the International Justice Mission (IJM) based on an overlooked reality: the poorest people in the world cannot escape poverty if they are constantly subjected to violence.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 16 On this day in 1854, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, a 24-year-old Black schoolteacher in New York City, refused to leave a horse-drawn streetcar after being told it was reserved for white passengers.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 15 On this day in 2013, former President George H. W. Bush and President Barack Obama came together at the White House to present the 5,000th Daily Point of Light Award.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 14 Today in 1951, the George Washington Carver National Monument was dedicated in Diamond, Missouri, the first time in U.S. history a national monument honored an African American, and the first for someone other than a president.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 13 On this day in 1985, Live Aid brought together musicians and audiences from around the world to help people suffering from famine in Ethiopia.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 12 On July 12, 2013, Malala Yousafzai celebrated her 16th birthday by delivering a historic speech at the United Nations, her first public appearance after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban for attending school.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 11 On this day in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published. More than a bestselling novel, it became one of the world's enduring lessons in empathy, courage, and justice.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 10 On this day in 1962, the U.S. patent was granted for the modern three-point seat belt invented by Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin.
This Day in the History of Kindness, July 9 On July 9, 1944, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest, Hungary, launching one of the most daring and extensive rescue missions of the Holocaust.
