Mother’s Day for Peace is held.

Championed by Julia Ward Howe, the event is meant to unite mothers against war and for disarmament. Reading a proclamation, Howe declares, “Arise, the women of this day! . . . We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.” The event is held annually on June 2nd for a number of years before being abandoned. Howe’s effort was inspired by an earlier effort by Anna Jarvis, who had tried to improve sanitation in the country through “Mother’s Work Days” in 1868. President Woodrow Wilson eventually declares the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day to honor women whose sons had died in World War I on May 9, 1914.