Feb. 3. 3114 BC: Reciprocal date for Mayan Creation, the laying out of the ecliptic. 1690: First paper money issued in America by Anglo colonists to pay soldiers in war against Quebec.

Feb. 4. 1869: Birth of Big Bill Haywood, founder of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). 1921: Birth of Betty Friedan, founder of National Organization for Women. 1990: Colombian government recognizes native rights to 69,000 square miles (an area slightly larger than the state of Washington) in Amazon Basin, home to 55,000 native people.

Feb. 5. 1970: U.S. troops invade Laos. 1991: 49 German troops conscientiously object to going to Turkey for Gulf War. 1994: Byron De La Beckwith convicted of killing Medgar Evers in 1963, Jackson, Mississippi.

Feb. 6. 1973: 200 American Indian Movement protesters clash with police for three days in Custer, S. Dakota, over murder of Wesley Bad Heart; 37 arrested.

Feb. 7. 1876: War Dept. authorizes Gen. Sheridan to commence operations against "hostile" Lakota, including bands of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. 1965: U.S. Air Force begins saturation bombing of North Vietnam. 1993: Women's tribunal against rape in war, Zagreb, Croatia.

Feb. 8. 1517: Hernandez de Cordova sails with three vessels from Cuba to Bahama Islands in search of Native American slaves. 1809: Russians who built blockhouse on the Hoh River (Olympic Penninsula, Washington) taken captive by Hoh Indians, and are held as slaves for two years. 1963: Military coup in Iraq topples regime of Abdel Karim Kassem.

Feb. 9. 1915: World Union of Women for International Concord founded, Geneva, Switzerland. 1944: Birth of novelist and activist Alice Walker.