Nov. 3. 1865: Mescalero Apache disappear from Bosque Redondo where Kit Carson had them incarcerated, and were untraceable for the next seven years.

Nov. 4. 1924: Nellie Rayloe Ross elected first female Governor of a U.S. state (Wyoming). 1971: Chinook tribe is awarded $75,000 by Indian Claims Commission for Southwest Washington lands stolen in 19th Century, but has a previous 1912 settlement deducted from the award.

Nov. 5, 1962: United Nations General Assembly demands complete nuclear weapons testing ban.

Nov. 6, 1913: Gandhi leads Great March into Transvaal, South Africa. 1967: Parliament institutes racial segregation in public facilities, Rhodesia.

Nov. 7, 1837: Abolitionist editor Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by mob in Alton, Illinois. 1967: Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, the first African-American to be elected mayor of a major U.S. city.

Nov. 8, 1892: 20,000 black and white workers stage general strike, New Orleans. 1967: 500 University of Washington students protest against campus visit by recruiters for Dow Chemical.

Nov. 9, 1875: Indian Bureau reports that Plains Indians outside reservations are "well-fed ... lofty and independent in their attitudes, and are a threat to the reservation system." 1984: U.S. peace activists sail shrimp boat into Port of Corinto to confront U.S. warships threatening Nicaragua.

Nov. 10. 1924: Society for Human Rights, first gay rights organization in the U.S., founded in Chicago. 1950: When a U.S. Air Force B-50 bomber carrying an H-bomb develops engine trouble over Canada, crew members detonate the bomb (with its plutonium core removed), scattering 45 kg of highly enriched uranium into the atmosphere only 2,493 feet over Riviere du Loup, Quebec.

Nov. 11. 1831: Slave revolt leader Nat Turner hanged, Jerusalem, Virginia. 1919: Centralia Massacre of IWW labor organizers.

Nov. 12. 1972: Chicano protesters storm the Seattle City Council after it rejects a lease for a proposed Chicano community center on the unused Beacon Hill School site. The site is later approved as El Centro de la Raza. 1991: Occupying Indonesian troops murder 150 nonviolent demonstrators in Santa Cruz Massacre, Dili, East Timor.

Nov. 13. 1839: First U.S. anti-slavery political party (Liberal Party) established. 1887: Police charge a crowd of unemployed protesters in Trafalgar Square, London, killing three and arresting over 300. The "Bloody Sunday" incident was a turning point in British struggles for free speech rights.

Nov. 14. 1916: Margaret Sanger arrested for operating a birth control clinic. 1972: Filipino activist Bob Santos leads a multiracial march demanding more federal housing aid in Seattle.

Nov. 15. 1991: Brazil's Pres. Collor signs decree to return original lands to Yanomani Indians. Unfortunately, the decree means little, as gold miners and ranchers continue to steal land and murder the Yanomani with impunity.

Nov. 16. 1983: Federal District Court Judge Jack Tanner orders Washington State to pay female employees their "comparable worth." 1997: After a silent, half-mile long "funeral procession" attempts to enter the base, 601 activists are arrested at School of the Americas.