Jan. 27. 1945: Ukrainian division of Soviet Army frees surviving Auschwitz prisoners. 1951: First U.S. nuclear weapons test conducted at what would become the Nevada Test Site. 1957: For the second time in a year, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed. 1973: Vietnam Peace Treaty signed in Paris. 1983: Nationwide strike by some 10,000 conscientious objectors, West Germany.

Jan. 28. 1853: Birth of Jose Marti, hero of Cuban independence. 1861: American Miners Association, first national coal miners' union, founded. 1995: Over 100 Solders' Mothers Committee members go to Russian army training camp to reclaim their sons from the Army.

Jan. 29. 1737: Thomas Paine, radical writer, born, Thetford, Britain. 1856: Leschi, chief of the Nisqually and Yakama, leads 1,000 warriors in an attack on the town of Seattle. The attack is repulsed by naval forces in the harbor. 1889: 6,000 railway workers strike for union and end of 18-hour day. 1936: Sit-down strike helps establish United Rubber Workers as a national union, Akron, Ohio. 1996: Bowing to massive international pressure, French President Jacques Chirac orders an early end to a planned series of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

Jan. 30. 1948: Mohandas Gandhi assassinated, New Delhi, India. 1956: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed. 1972: On "Bloody Sunday," British soldiers open fire and kill fourteen civilians during a civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Jan. 31. 1855: Makah and Quileut reservations created by Neah Bay Treaty. 1865: Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery; it becomes part of the Constitution later that year. 1968: A Seattle City Council hearing concludes that there are no legal means to curb hippies in the U-District. 1997: Four Critical Mass protesters arrested and five police officers "injured" when police attack a peaceful bicycle protest in downtown Seattle.

Feb. 1. 1870: Jonathon Jasper Wright is elected to South Carolina Supreme Court, becoming the first African-American to hold a major judicial post in the U.S. 1902: Langston Hughes born. 1960: Four black students sit in at a Woolworths' lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest segregation. Similar protests later take place all over the South and in some northern communities. 1988: Two Native American activists, Eddie Hatcher and Tim Jacobs, occupy a newspaper office in Lumberton, NC to highlight racism issues.

Feb. 2. 1779: Anthony Benezet refuses to pay revolutionary war taxes. 1879: 540 Paiutes arrive at Yakama reservation after a forced march through winter snows from Southern Oregon. 1958: Midair collision involves jettisoning of nuclear weapon part into ocean near Savannah, Georgia. 1962: Univ. of Washington bans campus speech by Gus Hall, head of Communist Party USA. 1972: In response to the Bloody Sunday killings, an Irish mob torches the British Embassy in Dublin.