July 29. 1920: "No more war" demonstrations by disabled veterans, Germany. 1968: Riots rock Seattle's Central Area after a police raid on the local Black Panther Party headquarters. Seattle BPP leader Aaron Dixon is arrested for possession of a stolen typewriter. (He is later acquitted.) 69 are arrested in riots over the following three days.

July 30. 1967: Four die during riots in black sections of Milwaukee. 1970: Teamsters boss James Hoffa is disappeared from the parking lot of the Hungry Tiger coffee shop in suburban Birmingham, Mich. 1996: Four Ploughshares activists in England acquitted of all charges on the basis of preventing a greater crime, after having extensively damaged an F-16 fighter jet set to be sold to the Indonesian government to be used in its genocidal occupation of East Timor.

July 31. 1977: One person is killed in 60,000 strong demonstration against Super-Phoenix nuclear reactor, Malville, France. 1991: START I nuclear arms reduction treaty signed.

Aug. 1. 1758: First Indian reservation in North America established by New Jersey Colonial Assembly. 1920: National convention of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association opens in Harlem, New York City. 1938: Hilo Massacre: union supporters in Hilo, Hawaii are gassed, hosed, bayoneted and shot. 1953: House Concurrent Resolution 108 ends the status of certain Indian tribes, called "termination." 1970: Puyallup Indians set up camp on Puyallup River and begin fishing to re-establish tribal fishing rights. 1975: Helsinki Accords on human rights and East-West relations formed.

Aug. 2. 1832: Sauk-Fox tribe, under a flag of truce, massacred at Bad Axe River by Illinois militia. 1877: 60 striking miners wounded by police in Scranton, Penn. 1924: Birth of radical black gay author and playwright James Baldwin. 1931: Albert Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work. 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait, after discussing plans with U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie.

Aug. 3. 1913: Four die in the so-called "Wheatland riots" when police fire into a crowd of California farmworkers trying to organize for better working conditions. Two labor leaders, one not even present on the day, are later convicted of murder for encouraging workers to organize, which, by the legal logic of the time, forced officials to shoot them. 1971: 200 march in Seattle to demand release of federal surplus food supplies to feed the hungry. 1981: 11,500 air traffic controllers (PATCO) go on strike.

Aug. 4. 1964: Bodies of civil rights volunteers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney found near Philadelphia, Mississippi. 1987: After the assassination of its anti-nuclear President and strong lobbying by the United States, the Pacific island nation of Belau (a former U.S. protectorate) reverses six previous votes and agrees to eliminate a clause in its constitution prohibiting nuclear weapons.