Oct. 21. 1983: In first public action of the new Seattle Nonviolent Action Group (SNAG), 12 people blockade Boeing's cruise missile plant in Kent all day; none are arrested.

Oct. 22. 1972: U.S. Navy charges 22 black seamen, but no whites, in conjunction with interracial fighting aboard U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. 1983: Capping a week of protests, over two million people in six European cities march against U.S. deployment of cruise and Pershing nuclear missiles.

Oct. 23. 1983: U.S. Marine intervention in Lebanon ends in disaster when a terrorist suicide bomb kills 214 servicemen.

Oct. 24. 1945: United Nations Charter comes into effect. 1968: Yavapai tribe in Arizona wins $5 million settlement for 9 million acres taken in 1874. (For you math whizzes, that's 56 cents per acre, with interest, 94 years late.)

Oct. 25. 1784: Crown representatives in Canada give Mohawk their own land. Gee, thanks. 1960: Martin Luther King, Jr., jailed in Decatur, Georgia, a white suburb of Atlanta. 1983: Partly to deflect attention from the week's anti-nuclear protests and massive loss of U.S. Marine life in Lebanon, the U.S. invades Grenada. This action, to "save" a few dozen U.S. medical students who didn't want saving, overthrew a democratically elected government; the subsequent pro-U.S., pro-IMF regime dramatically curtailed civil liberties and crippled the tiny island nation's economy. The invasion also helpfully cured U.S. leaders (if not the public) of the so-called "Vietnam Syndrome."

Oct. 26. 1960: U.S.-backed military coup deposes El Salvador president Jose Marie Lemus. 1994: Declassified documents reveal that the CIA paid Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega more than $10 million to serve as a U.S. spy. Media and public yawn.

Oct. 27. 1962: 200,000 U.S. troops assemble in Florida in preparation for an invasion of Cuba. 1994: After a decade of civil war with the legendarily barbaric REMAPO (supported by the U.S. and South Africa), Mozambique holds its first multi-party elections.