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#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common in the UK.
They encircle the 9 mile perimeter fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.
The Peace Camp at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, and founded and run by women.
Watch news footage from the time: gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video…
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 1977, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams accept the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their community activism in Northern Ireland.
Betty gave their lecture the following day:
nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/19…
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Nobel Peace Prize 1976
The Nobel Peace Prize 1976 was awarded jointly to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan "for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland"NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize ceremony is now held on 10 December each year, which means we have a mini-thread of #NobelWomen who accepted their medals #OnThisDay.
This is not a complete set. Finishing going through the whole list is on our to do list.
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