Nov. 4. 1879: Populist humorist Will Rogers born. 1979: Iranian militants seize U.S. embassy personnel in Teheran. The resulting year-long media frenzy helps elect Ronald Reagan U.S. President.

Nov. 5 1902: Everett Central Labor Council formed. 1916: Seven IWW union activists killed, scores wounded in Everett (Washington) massacre when police attack a group of 280 picketers arriving on a ferry from Seattle. 74 union members are charged with murder in the incident; charges are later dropped. 1935: In the heart of the Great Depression, Parker Brothers introduces the board game "Monopoly." 1962: United Nations General Assembly demands complete nuclear weapons testing ban. 1968: Washington state voters reject an initiative that would ban the export of raw logs. 1974: Voters ban underground bomb tests, Colorado.

Nov. 6. 1913: Gandhi leads Great March into Transvaal, South Africa. 1967: Parliament institutes racial segregation in public facilities, Rhodesia.

Nov. 7. 1917: Bolshevik revolution launched in Russia. 1967: Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, the first African-American to be elected mayor of a major U.S. city. 1978: Nation's first nuclear-free zone established in Missoula, Mont.

Nov. 8. 1868: Powder River country, including Black Hills, is given to Lakota "forever" by treaty. Within a decade white settlers, business interests, and the U.S. Army seize the region. 1892: 20,000 black and white workers stage general strike, New Orleans. 1960: Washington state voters refuse to repeal "Alien Land Law" provision of the state constitution barring Asians from owning property. 1967: 500 University of Washington students protest against campus visit by recruiters for Dow Chemical. 1975: Charges against eight National Guardsmen stemming from the 1970 Kent State shootings were dropped in federal court.

Nov. 9. 1875: Indian Bureau reports that Plains Indians outside reservations are "well-fed ... lofty and independent in their attitudes, and are a threat to the reservation system." 1935: John L. Lewis forms the Council of Industrial Organizations (CIO). 1982: Computer error causes six-minute "nuclear war alert" in U.S. 1992: Anti-racist protests held in thirty Italian cities. 1993: The Old Bridge, symbol of unity since 1567, destroyed by shellfire, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Nov. 10. 1898: 400 Democratic Party activists in Wilmington, North Carolina storm through the black section of town, assassinating black political officeholders. 30 blacks died in the massacre. 1924: Society for Human Rights, first gay rights organization in the U.S., founded in Chicago. 1938: Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, marks escalation of repression of Jews in Nazi Germany. 1950: When a U.S. Air Force B-50 bomber carrying an H-bomb develops engine trouble over Canada, crew members detonate the bomb (with its plutonium core removed), scattering 45 kg of highly enriched uranium into the atmosphere only 2,493 feet over Riviere du Loup, Quebec. 1995: Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other human rights activists are executed by the illegal military government of Nigeria. Clinton administration refuses to pursue sanctions.