Apr. 27. 1825: First strike for 10-hour day by Boston carpenters. 1968: 60,000 march against Vietnam War in New York City; 2,000 march in Seattle. 1998: Over 10% of the workforce of Denmark--at least 500,000 people--go on strike in protest of proposed social service cutbacks.

Apr. 28. 1965: President Johnson sends 14,000 U.S. troops to the Dominican Republic to prevent the ascension of demoncratically elected president Juan Bosch. 1967: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammed Ali is arrested for refusing military induction. 1970: Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) enacted. 1987: Benjamin Linder, a volunteer engineer from Seattle, is murdered by U.S.-sponsored Contras (characterized by then-Pres. Reagan as "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers") while working on a hydroelectric project in rural Nicaragua.

Apr. 29. 1894: Jacob Coxey's protest Industrial Army of the Poor reaches Washington D.C. He led a group of 500 unemployed people from the Midwest, and was arrested for trespassing on Capitol grounds. 1945: U.S. troops liberate concentration camp survivors at Dachau, Poland. 1992: An all-white jury acquits four Los Angeles policement of charges resulting from the beating of Rodney King. Riots and civil disturbances break out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and numerous other U.S. cities. In L.A. 53 die and hundreds are injured over the following days.

Apr. 30. 1970: Announcement of secret U.S. bombing and invasion of previously neutral Cambodia prompts demonstrations at college campuses across U.S. Four days before Kent State, National Guard troops fire shotguns on protesters at Ohio State University in Columbus, injuring seven. 1,000 march in downtown Seattle; protesters trash ROTC offices at the University of Washington. 1992: A Univ. of Washington rally protesting the verdict acquitting Rodney King's assailants marches off campus and downtown via Interstate 5. Two nights of angry disturbances in Seattle result in five injuries and dozens of arrests.

May 1. 1886: International Workers' Day (May Day) begins in Chicago. 340,000 U.S. workers in Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities strike for the eight hour workday. Four demonstrators are killed and over 200 wounded when police attack the Chicago rally. U.S. later sets another day as Labor Day to undercut world solidarity. 1971: Beginning of five days of anti-war May Day protests in Washington, D.C., resulting in over 14,000 arrests--the largest mass civil disobedience in U.S. history.

May 2. 1933: Adolf Hitler abolishes all labor unions in Germany. 1955: Parliament forbids discrimination by caste, India. 1971: Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland address a "G.I. Anti-War Rally" in Tacoma. 1984: 33,000 West German metalworkers strike for 35-hour week.

May 3. 1919: Folk singer Pete Seeger born, Patterson, New York. 1936: Birth of "Godfather of Soul" James Brown. 1971: 7,000 people arrested in attempt to shut down the Pentagon. 1981: 100,000 protest U.S. intervention in El Salvador.