Nov. 4. 19924: Nellie Rayloe Ross elected first female governor of a U.S. state (Wyoming). 1979: Iranian militants seize U.S. embassy in Tehran. The resulting year-long media frenzy helps elect Ronald Reagan. Thanks, assholes.

Nov. 5. 1855: Eugene Debs, U.S. socialist and anti-militarist, born. 1875: Susan B. Anthony arrested for attempting to vote. 1968: Washington state voters reject an initiative that would have banned the export of raw logs. 1984: Anti-apartheid general strike, South Africa. 1997: Dozens arrested in Seattle for attempting to vote for Charlie Chong.

Nov. 6. 1967: Parliament institutes racial segregation in public facilities, Rhodesia.

Nov. 7. 1933: Gandhi begins tour for Harijan uplift, India. 1967: Carl B. Stokes (Cleveland) first elected African-American mayor of a major U.S. city.

Nov. 8. 1868: Powder River country, including all of Black Hills, is given to Lakota tribes ~forever~ by U.S. treaty. Within a decade white settlers, business interests, and the U.S. Army seize the region. 1892: 20,000 black and white workers stage general strike, New Orleans. 1897: Birth (and today, the 100th birthday) of Dorothy Day, anarchist, pacifist, and founder of Catholic Worker movement. 1960: Washington state voters refuse to repeal ~Alien Land Law' provision of the state constitution barring Asians from owning property. 1974: Lt. William Calley is paroled after serving about three years in prison for the murders of over 500 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.

Nov. 9. 1938: Kristallnacht or ~Crystal Night,~ a night of Nazi terror against Jews that marks the beginning of the Holocaust. 1965: Northeast power grid fails, blacking out power for over 30 million people on eastern seaboard of U.S. 1982: Computer error causes six-minute ~nuclear war alert' in U.S. 1989: Wall opened in response to nonviolent action, Berlin, Germany. 1993: The Old Bridge, symbol of unity since 1567, destroyed by mortar fire, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Nov. 10. 1898: 400 Democratic Party activists in Wilmington, N.C., storm through the black section of town, assassinating black political officeholders. 30 blacks were murdered in the massacre. 1995: Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other human rights/environmental activists executed by illegal military regime of Nigeria (another proud Boeing client). Clinton administration refuses to pursue sanctions.