Mar. 25. 1911: 1911: 146 immigrant sweatshop workers killed in the Triangle Shirt Waist fire, New York City. Incident leads to widespread reforms in working conditions, and apologies from Kathie Lee Gifford. 1972: 30,000 in Children's March for Survival, Washington, DC, protesting welfare cuts. 1994: Last U.S. soldiers leave Somalia as civil war intensifies.

Mar. 26. 1804: First official notice to Indians from U.S. government to move all Indians west of Mississippi River.

Mar. 27. 1814: Massacre of Tohopeka (Horseshoe Bend). Gen. Andrew Jackson overwhelms Creek Indians; to count the dead, whites cut off Creek noses, piling up 557 of them, and skinning the bodies to tan hides for souvenirs. 1988: Mordechai Vanunu jailed for 18 years for disclosing Israeli nuclear weapons program to London Times.

Mar. 28. 1915: Emma Goldman arrested for telling U.S. audience how to use contraceptives; chooses 15 days in jail over $100 fine. 1969: Anna Louise Strong, former Seattle School Board member and organizer of 1919 Seattle General Strike, dies in Beijing, China. 1979: Plant failure and partial meltdown results in release of radioactivity at Three Mile Island nuclear power facility, near Harrisburg, PA. The proposed new FFTF project at Hanford, incidentally, would normally release more radioactivity into the air each day than was released at TMI.

Mar. 30. 1870: Ratification of 15th Amendment to U.S. Constitution gives African-American men the right to vote. Poll taxes and literacy tests soon follow. 1996: 500 march in Sunnyside, Wash., in a United Farm Workers-sponsored commemoration of Cesar Chavez.

Mar. 31. 1927: Cesar Chavez born, Arizona. 1966: Two-day boycott of Seattle schools begins, protesting de facto segregation.