Aug. 5. 1966: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stoned as he leads a march through Chicago's South Side. With rocks, we mean. 1981: Pres. Reagan orders the FAA to fire 12,700 striking air traffic controllers, setting the tone for a decade of government complicity in corporate union-busting.

Aug. 6. 1945: U.S. drops atomic bomb on civilian population of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 die from the immediate effects of the bombing; tens of thousands more in subsequent decades from radiation-induced illnesses. 1957: Eleven activists from the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) are arrested at atomic test proving grounds in Nevada, the first of what eventually becomes many thousands of arrests at the Nevada Test Site. 1977: First occupation of Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, on Columbia River near Rainier, Oregon. 1985: South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty signed. 1997: Hundreds turn out at Seattle's Pier 90 to protest the first-ever arrival in Elliot Bay, for Seafair, of the Trident nuclear submarine U.S.S. Ohio on Hiroshima Day.

Aug. 7. 1890: Birth of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, prominent labor organizer with the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World). 1995: Due to international pressure, state of Pennsylvania announces a stay of its planned Aug. 17 execution of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Aug. 8. 1947: Over objections of Tlingit Indians, the U.S. government agrees to timber sale from Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. The Tongass, once a pristine wilderness, is now one of the most denuded regions on the north Pacific coast. 1976: Farmers block nuclear equipment en route to Malville, France. 1994: Cesar Chavez is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, becoming the first Mexican-American ever to receive the honor.

Aug. 9. 1848: Free Soil Party organized in Buffalo, New York. 1851: Cathlamet tribe cede lands at mouth of Columbia where Fort Astoria and Fort George had stood, in exchange for food. Another area tribe, the Clatskaniene, sign a treaty ceding their northwest Oregon land; the treaty was never ratified. 1945: U.S. drops atomic bomb on civilian population of Nagasaki, Japan. An estimated 70,000 die from the immediate effects of the bombing. 1966: 200 stage sit-in at New York City offices of Dow Chemical to protest use of napalm in Vietnam. 1987: Hundreds arrested in all-day blockade of Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Golden, Colorado. 1989: Twenty-two anti-nuclear activists arrested for trespassing at Nevada Test Site in 110+ degree heat.

Aug. 10. 1680: Pueblo Revolt. Pope (San Juan tribe) attacks New Mexican capital of Santa Fe, killing 400; 11 days later, the Spanish abandon Santa Fe and begin a long retreat to El Paso, Texas. 1988: U.S. government offers apologies and reparations to Japanese-American citizens interned during World War II. 1997: Nine activists detained but not charged after throwing red paint on the Trident nuclear submarine U.S.S. Ohio at Seattle's waterfront.

Aug. 11. 1828: First labor party in U.S. formed in Philadelphia. 1970: United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez begins a hunger strike to protest union harassment by Teamsters officials.