Jan. 13. 1993: Vigil against arrival of ship bringing plutonium for nuclear reactor, Tokai, Japan. 1995: Eight opposition groups sign plan for ending civil war in Algeria.

Jan. 14. 1892: Martin Niemoeller, pacifist pastor, born, Germany. 1967: The Human Be-In is held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. 1991: An estimated 30,000-60,000 rally at Seattle Central Community College in vigil and opposition to pending U.S. invasion of Kuwait and Iraq. Protesters occupy Seattle's Federal Building; Univ. of Washington protesters block I-5 and march downtown to join the Federal Building demonstration. Evergreen State College students lead a demonstration that occupies the Washington state capitol building overnight.

Jan. 15. 1919: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht murdered in Berlin. 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr., born. 1943: The Pentagon, originally planned as a research hospital and then built as a military facility in eleven months during World War II, is completed in Arlington, Virginia. 1968: Jeanette Rankin Brigade--led by 87-year-old Rankin, the first U.S. Congresswoman and the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry to both World Wars--marches on Washington to protest war in Vietnam. 1969: Trial of Janet McCloud (Tulalip) and others for "fish-in" on Nisqually River in 1965; all are found not guilty.

Jan. 16. 1970: Black revolutionary George Jackson is accused of killing a guard in Soledad (California) state prison. 1991: U.S. invades Kuwait and Iraq. Several dozen U.S. troops (many victims of "friendly fire") and up to 400,000 Iraqi citizens die in the following weeks. An estimated 1,000,000 Iraqis die due to the effects of the following eight years of U.S.-led global economic embargo.

Jan. 17. 1863: Mangas Colorado, Apache chief, agrees to peace talks, was then arrested and imprisoned at Fort McLane (Arizona), then shot by two soldiers in his cell. 1902: Washington State Federation of Labor formed. 1968: Eartha Kitt disrupts White House luncheon giving her views on poverty and the Vietnam War. 1969: Jan Palach immolates himself in protest of Soviet occupation. Prague, Czechoslovakia. 1993: Native Hawai'ians demonstrate against U.S. control of their homeland.

Jan. 18. 1881: Spokane (Indian) Reservation established. 1958: Lumbee Indians drive Ku Klux Klan off their land in Maxton, NC. 1965: Segregationists assault Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama, as he registers as the first black guest in a hotel built a century earlier with slave labor. 1969: Police storm University of Tokyo to end student occupation. 1998: More than 2000 indigenous Tzeltals and Tojolbals from the Mexican state of Chiapas occupy the military barracks of the 39th Military Zone in protest over Mexican Army incursions into their communities.

Jan. 19. 1968: Lower Elwha band, after decades of struggle, are allotted reservation land on Olympic Peninsula. 1971: Indian fishing rights organizer Hank Adams is shot in Tacoma. 1994: "Shoes for Guns" firearm buyback effort begins in Chicago. Program is denounced by the National Rifle Association.