... 1929, the Treaty Providing for the Renunciation of War As an Instrument of National Policy entered into force. Also called the Pact of Paris, the city where it'd been signed the year before, the treaty is known commonly as the Kellogg-Briand Pact in recognition of 2 Nobel Peace Prizewinning diplomats who spearheaded it: French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. The treaty expressed an ideal of pacifism, beginning with Article I, which stated,The high contracting parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
Nominally the treaty remains in effect notwithstanding the failure of its high sentiments to deter armed conflicts.
... 1953, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, was born in Rolla, Missouri.
