Source: Good News Network
100 years ago today, the Paris Peace Conference decided to create the League of Nations and proceeded to draft a Covenant that 44 states would sign five months later. Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included “preventing wars through collective security and disarmament, and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration.
” (1919)MORE Good News on this Date:
- City of São Paulo founded in Brazil (1554)
- The Wedding March by Mendelssohn was played at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter and became a favorite recessional (1858)
- The United Mine Workers of America was founded in order to improve working conditions and wages for coal miners (1890)
- AT&T completed the first transcontinental telephone call in the US (1915)
- Bubble Wrap was invented, and although it failed in its original purpose as a textured wallpaper, it became a popular shipping insulation, and a fascination for children and the young at heart (1960)
- Pope John Paul II demanded the release of political prisoners during a historic visit to Cuba (1998)
- Egypt’s revolution began as thousands of anti-government protesters, inspired by the Tunisian uprising, clashed with police and demanded the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s rule (2011)
And on this date in 1890, pioneering journalist Nellie Bly completed a record breaking trip around the world in 72 days,…
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