Apr. 28. 1965: President Johnson sends 14,000 U.S. troops to the Dominican Republic to prevent the ascension of democratically elected president Juan Bosch. 1977: Mothers hold first rally for the disappeared at Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Apr. 29. 1945: U.S. troops liberate concentration camp survivors at Dachau, Poland. 1965: An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter Scale shakes Seattle, killing five and causing over $15 million in damage.

Apr. 30. 1972: 1,000 rally on Mercer Island to protest Soviet mistreatment of Jews. 1975: End of Vietnam War. 1992: A Univ. of Wash. rally protesting the verdict acquitting Rodney King's assailants marches off campus and downtown via I-5. Two nights of angry disturbances in Seattle result in five injuries and dozens of arrests.

May 1. 1830: Birth of anti-war activist and labor organizer Mary Harris, better known as Mother Jones. 1886: International Workers' Day (May Day) begins in Chicago. 340,000 U.S. workers in Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities strike for the eight hour workday. Four demonstrators are killed and over 200 wounded when police attack the Chicago rally. 1996: A Board of Directors meeting of British Aerospace, sellers of the Hawk jet fighter to Indonesia for use in its illegal occupation of East Timor, is interrupted by protesters pelting board members with eggs.

May 2. 1968: Protest at Univ. of Nanterre escalates into French student strike. By May 13, over 10 million French are out on a sympathy strike.

May 4. 1969: Several thousand march in the Arboretum to protest construction of a freeway that would have followed the Lake Washington shoreline throughout Seattle. Partially built ramps which would have connected the freeway to the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (Route 520) are still visible. 1989: 30,000 students march for democracy to Tienanmen Square, Beijing, China. 1993: Dhammayietra, walk for peace, to Phnom Penh, begins, Siem Reap, Kampuchea (Cambodia). 1996: Six arrested in New York City museum of U.S.S. Intrepid in honor of Fr. Daniel Berrigan's 75th birthday.