Mar. 24. 1918: Canadian women win the right to vote, years before the U.S. grants similar rights. 1980: Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated by U.S.- supported rightists. San Salvador, El Salvador. 1989: Exxon Valdez spills 14 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska. After numerous court battles, Exxon successfully avoids paying most of the cleanup costs.

Mar. 25. 1911: 146 immigrant sweatshop workers killed in Triangle Shirt Waist fire, New York City. 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 that all Indians must move west of Mississippi River.

Mar. 27. 1814: Massacre of Tohopeka (Horseshoe Band). Gen. Andrew Jackson overwhelms Creek forces; to count the Creek dead, whites cut off their noses, piling 557 of them, and skinning bodies to tan hides for souvenirs. 1988: Mordechai Vanunu is jailed 18 yeas for disclosing Israleli nuclear weapons program to London Times. He was recently released from solitary confinement for the first time since his arrest.

Mar. 28. 1969: Anna Louise Strong, former Seattle School Board member and organizer of the 1919 Seattle General Strike, dies in Beijing, China.

Mar. 30. 1870: Ratification of the 15th Amendment to U.S. Constitution gives African-American men the right to vote. Poll taxes and literacy tests soon follow. 1972: Great Britain imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland. 1996: 500 march in Sunnyside, Wash., in a United Farm Workers-sponsored commemoration of Cesar Chavez.