On this day in 1965 demonstrations across 40 cities in the United States drew 100,000 protesters. In New York a young Catholic pacifist called David Miller became the first U.S. protester to burn his draft card which was a direct violation of a recently passed law forbidding this. David Miller was arrested by the FBI, tried and found guilty and sentenced to two years imprisonment. The deomonstations were staged by a student run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam.