Oct. 20. 1963: Between 3,000 and 5,000 rally at Seattle's Garfield High School in support of an open housing ordinance for the city. 1968: Gonzalo Arias arrested for Los Encartelados demonstration against Franco regime. Madrid, Spain.

Oct. 21. 1967: 700 arrested, dozens injured as 100,000 march on and encircle Pentagon to protest Vietnam War. 1983: In first public action of the new Seattle Nonviolent Action Group (SNAG), 12 people blockade Boeing Cruise Missile plant in Kent all day. None are arrested.

Oct. 22. 1983: Capping a week of protests, over two million people in six European cities march against U.S. deployment of cruise and Pershing nuclear missiles in Europe.

Oct. 23. 1975: The Federal Trade Commission criticizes the Bureau of Indian Affairs' failure to live up to its trust responsibility when negotiating energy contracts.

Oct. 24. 1940: The 40-hour work week goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

Oct. 25. 1983: Island of Grenada invaded by 5,000 U.S. Marines and Army Rangers on the pretext of saving "endangered" American lives, while diverting attention from the bombing of Lebanon and media coverage of European anti-nuclear protests.

Oct. 26. 1994: Israel and Jordan sign treaty to end 46 years of war. 1994: Declassified U.S. government brief reveals that Panama's Manuel Noriega was paid more than $10 million as a U.S. spy.

Oct. 27. 1682: Tammany, chief of the Lennilenape Delaware, greets William Penn when he arrives to found the Colony of Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the pacifist Quakers turn out to be just as bloodthirsty toward Indians as all the other colonists.

Oct. 28. 1967: Black Panther leader Huey Newton is arrested and charged with murder in Oakland. 1989: Police attack 10,000 pro-democracy demonstrators, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Oct. 29. 1969: 100 demonstrators disrupt university ROTC with "nonviolent ridicule," Buffalo, NY. 1979: "Up Against The Wall Street Journal" direct actions disrupt New York Stock Exchange and financial district on 50th Anniversary of the stock market crash of 1929. Over 1,000 people are arrested.

Oct. 30. 1950: Pedro Campos stages rebellion against U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. 1995: Over 80 people, including former U.S. Rep. Jim Jontz, arrested at Sugarloaf Mountain in southern Oregon during a massive direct action to prevent corporate clearcutting of old growth forests on public land.

Oct. 31. 1970: 2,000 march from Seattle Center to downtown to protest war in Southeast Asia. 1981: Six-month occupation of nuclear power site ends, Luxulyan, Cornwall, Britain.

Nov. 1. 1797: First African Free School established in New York. 1961: 50,000 women join in protests across the U.S. against resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests, leading to founding of Women Strike for Peace.

Nov. 2. 1963: Army forces assassinate South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem in Saigon. His wife, in Beverly Hills at the time, denounces U.S. complicity in the coup. 1972: Asian-American protesters from nearby International District sling mud at the ground-breaking ceremony for a new domed stadium (the Kingdome) in Seattle.