Did you know...
... that today is the birthday of the Peace Corps? On October
14, 1960, at 2 a.m., Senator John F. Kennedy spoke to a crowd
of 10,000 cheering students at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor during a presidential campaign speech, speaking for
the first time about his idea of a Peace Corps. His young
audience responded to this speech with a petition signed by
1,000 students willing to serve abroad. He established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961, by executive order.