Feb. 3. BC 3114: Reciprocal date for Mayan Creation, the laying out of the ecliptic. 1690: First paper money issued in America by Anglo colonists to pay soldiers in war against Quebec. 1919: 32,000 mill workers go on "Bread and Roses" strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. 1965: Over 2,600 arrests, many of them schoolchildren, in week-long voter registration demonstrations in Selma, Alabama.

Feb. 4. 1921: Birth of Betty Friedan, founder of National Organization for Women. 1985: Visit by U.S.S. Buchanan refused, New Zealand. 1990: Colombian government recognizes native rights to 69,000 square miles (slightly larger than area of state of Washington) in Amazon Basin, home to 55,000 native people.

Feb. 5. 1970: U.S. troops invade Laos. 1974: Heiress Patricia Hearst is kidnapped in Berkeley by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which demands that the Hearst family organize and fund a free food program for poor people in Oakland. Several street feeds do take place before the program runs out of money in March. 1994: Byron De La Beckwith convicted of killing Medgar Evers in 1963, Jackson, Mississippi.

Feb. 6. 1918: Women over the age of 30 are given the right to vote in England. 1919: In one of the largest labor demonstrations in U.S. history, the Seattle General Strike takes control of the city of Seattle in support of 32,000 striking longshoremen. 1973: 200 American Indian Movement protesters clash with police for three days in Custer, South Dakota, over murder of Wesley Bad Heart; 37 arrested. 1976: Native American activist Leonard Peltier is captured in Canada and, on the basis of fictitious affidavits generated by the FBI, is later extradited to the U.S.

Feb. 7. 1876: War Dept. authorizes Gen. Sheridan to commence operations against "hostile" Lakota, including the bands of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. 1885: Birth of novelist Sinclair Lewis. 1965: U.S. Air Force begins saturation bombing of North Vietnam. 1993: Women's tribunal against rape in war, Zagreb, Croatia.

Feb. 8. 1809: Russians who built blockhouse on the Hoh River (Olympic Peninsula) taken captive by Hoh Indians, and are held as slaves for two years. 1912: Vigilantes beat IWW organizers for exercising free speech rights in San Diego, Calif. 1963: Military coup in Iraq topples regime of Abdel Karim Kassem. 1968: Police kill four and wound 33 as black students protest at a segregated bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina. 1988: Withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan announced by USSR.

Feb. 9. 1915: World Union of Women for International Concord founded, Geneva. 1971: Protests led by the Oriental Student Union briefly close Seattle Central Community College. 1995: Mexican government cancels peace process; troops invade the Chiapas strongholds of Zapatista rebels.