A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
Martin Luther King (1957-1968)
Address On Courage, 5 December 1965
This Week in History:
May 18th - 23rd
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What the BBC ignored:
May 25 - 1961: President Kennedy launches the Apollo Program with the intention of putting a man on the moon
May 25 - 1969: Ameican Airlines Flight 191 crahses in Chicargo killing 273 people
May 25 - 1982: HMS Conventry is sunk during the Falkands War.
May 26 - 2003: The United States and Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
May 27 - 1968: President Obama becomes teh first US president to visit Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park
May 28 - 1987: 18 year old pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet air defences to land in Red Square, Moscow
May 29 - 1987: Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest
May 30 - 1987: The Convention banning cluster bombs is adopted
May 31 - 1987: The Ancash Earthquake strikes Peru killing over 66,000 people
Would you have swapped any of the events above for any of the events chosen by the BBC?
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