Friday, April 04, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It debuted the year the Chevy Impala was introduced, the hula hoop was the national craze and the United States launched its first satellite.
Fifty years ago today, an odd-looking symbol went public in London's Trafalgar Square at the start of Britain's first major demonstration against nuclear weapons.
It became known as the peace sign and was designed by Gerald Holtom, a London textile designer, for a demonstration by a disarmament group called the Direct Action Campaign. The group planned a 52-mile march from London to the town of Aldermaston, where an atomic weapons research center was based.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08095/870379-42.stm