Happy Birthday Kellogg-Brand Pact!

On this day in 1928, the Kellogg-Brand Pact was signed. The pact initially included France and Germany (and 13 others including the U.S.). It was signed in Paris and was ratified by the U.S. Senate 85 to 1.

The pact's signatories agreed that all future conflicts would be settled using peaceful means and likewise renounced war as an instrument of policy.

A little less than twelve years later, German troops occupied Paris.