Aug. 5. 1992: 100,000 march in South Africa for multi-racial rule.

Aug. 6. 1945: U.S. drops atomic bomb on civilian population of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 die from the immediate effects of the bombing, while tens of thousands more perish in subsequent decades from radiation-induced illnesses. 1985: South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty signed. 1996: 30 people turn themselves in to the national police of Wales and insist on confessing to the crime of paying income and VAT (sales) taxes used for weapons and other British government programs that violate international law. Police refuse to make arrests.

Aug. 7. 1890: Birth of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, prominent labor organizer with the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World). 1995: Due to international pressure, state of Pennsylvania announces a stay of its planned Aug. 17 execution of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Aug. 8. 1976: Farmers block nuclear equipment en route to Malville, France.

Aug. 9. 1779: General Clinton and 1,500 American troops break dam to flood Iroquois towns and fields in upstate New York; troops then burn and ravage settlements for 12 days. 1945: U.S. drops atomic bomb on civilian population of Nagasaki, Japan. An estimated 70,000 die from the immediate effects of the bombing. 1987: Hundreds arrested in all-day blockade of Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Golden, Colorado. 1995: Death of Grateful Dead singer, Jerry Garcia, New York City.

Aug. 10. 1984: Two Plowshares activists, Barb Katt and John LaForge, damage a Trident submarine guidance system with hammers at a Sperry plant in Minnesota. In sentencing them later to six months' probation, the judge in the case commented: "Why do we condemn and hang individual killers, while extolling the virtues of warmongers?"

Aug. 11. 1970: United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez begins a hunger strike to protest union harassment by Teamsters officials.