Jan. 19. 1971: Indian fishing rights organizer Hank Adams is shot in Tacoma.

Jan. 20. 1998: Over 200 citizens show up at a Seattle public hearing, many in radiation suits and mutant radioactive survivor makeup, and conduct die-ins to protest possible restart of nuclear weapon production at Hanford.

Jan. 21. 1647: Margaret Brent becomes first U.S. woman to ask for vote (in Maryland assembly). 1969: The Navajo Community College, the first tribally established and operated community college in the U.S., opens at Many Farms, Arizona.

Jan. 22. 1991: Fourteen ACT-UP AIDS activists are arrested disrupting CBS, NBC and PBS evening news broadcasts with "Fight AIDS, not Arabs" banners.

Jan. 23. 1964: 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution passed, outlawing poll taxes in federal elections. 1986: About 1,000 pounds of uranium are accidentally pumped into the sea, Windscale, Britain.

Jan. 24. 1955: Ira Hamilton Hayes, a Native American (Pima) who was one of six U.S. Marines to raise the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima, dies of exposure.

Jan. 25. 1787: Shay's Rebellion breaks out against imprisonment of Massachusetts farmers for debts. 1983: U.S. Court of Appeals affirms rights of six Chippewa bands to hunt, fish and cut timber on lands ceded to the U.S.

Jan. 26. 1969: Edwin Pratt, director of Seattle Urban League, is assassinated; police involvement is widely suspected. An arrest is never made in the case. 1991: 100,000 march against Gulf War, New York City and San Francisco.

Jan. 27. 1945: Ukrainian division of Soviet Army frees surviving Auschwitz prisoners. 1991: Gulf Peace Team evicted from peace camp by U.S. troops, Judayyidat Ar'ar, Iraq.

Jan. 28. 1853: Birth of Jose Marti, hero of Cuban independence. 1861: American Miners Association, first national coal miners' union, founded.

Jan. 29. 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.

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. 1968: A Seattle City Council hearing concludes that there are no legal means to curb hippies in the U-District. 1995: World Trade Organization opens for business in Geneva, Switzerland.

Feb. 1. 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.