May 26. 1637: Captains John Mason and John Underhill attack and burn Pequot forts at Mystic, Conn., massacring 600 Indians and starting Pequot War. 1894: Western Federation of Miners strike for eight-hour day. Cripple Creek, Colo. 1969: Police arrest 34 during clashes at Garfield High School and Seattle Central Community College.

May 28. 1830: Pres. Andrew Jackson's recommendation to move all Indians west of Mississippi River--later used as a model by South Africa's apartheid leaders--becomes law. 1871: Paris Commune crushed by French soldiers; 25,000 massacred. 1946: General strike paralyzes Rochester, N.Y. 1961: Amnesty International founded, Britain. 1982: Seven women fast for ten days in Springfield, Illinois in support of ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by the Illinois state legislature.

May 29. 1792: Spanish fort established at Neah Bay, the first European settlement in Washington state. It was abandoned after four months. 1978: Troops massacre 100 campesinos protesting against eviction. Panzos, Alta Vehapaz, Guatemala. 1979: An all-straight jury convicts former cop and San Francisco city supervisor Dan White of the lightest charge possible in the assassination of S.F. city supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone. White's defense argued that White was depressed due to overconsumption of junk food. Thousands march on city hall in response, provoking a police riot.

May 30. 1741: Thirteen black men are burned at the stake, and 17 black men, two white men, and two white women are hanged, for their roles in planning a slave revolt in New York City.

May 31. 1937: Police open fire on striking steelworkers in South Chicago, killing 10 and wounding over 160.

June 1. 1932: Gay rights organizer Henry Gerber publishes an article in Modern Thinker magazine attacking the view that homosexuality is a neurosis. 1963: 531, including NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, are arrested at a peaceful civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. 1985: Unemployed in Vancouver, B.C., demand free bus service. 1992: United Nations Earth Summit begins in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. U.S. obstructs passage of most proposals.