Feb. 16. 1942: Conscientious objectors arrested after walking out of work camp, Merom, Indiana.

Feb. 17. 1975: Several hundred residents of Wyhl, Germany, occupy the construction site of a nuclear power plant. Police responded with water cannons and arrests; by the following week, 28,000 had joined the occupation, and police withdrew for over a year. This is believed to have been the first such plant occupation in the world.

Feb. 18. 1867: Nonviolent resistance to Austrian oppression results in separate constitution, Hungary. 1965: Civil rights worker Jimmie Lee Jackson is beaten and shot by state police in Marion, Alabama. He dies eight days later.

Feb. 19. 1942: 112,000 citizens of Japanese ancestry interned in U.S. concentration camps set up from this day, ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Feb. 20. 1942: Norweigan teachers begin successful nonviolent strike against Nazification of schools. 1956: U.S. rejects Soviet proposal to ban nuclear weapons tests and deployment.

Feb. 21. 1934: Augusto C. Sandino, hero of Nicaraguan independence, assassinated in Managua. 1972: Beginning of the trial of Fr. Philip Berrigan and six other nonviolent activists (The "Harrisburg Seven") in Harrisburg, PA, for an alleged plot to kidnap Henry Kissinger. Proceedings later end in a mistrial.

Feb. 22. 1943: Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old activist at Munich University, is executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government. 1974: Sam Lovejoy topples weather tower for proposed nucelar power plant, Montague, MA. First act of civil disobedience against nuclear power in U.S.

Feb. 23. 1868: Birth of black nationalist W.E.B. DuBois. 1936: Puerto Rican nationals assassinate Puerto Rico's U.S. police chief, E. Francis Riggs.

Feb. 24. 1912: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn leads Bread and Roses textile strike rally of 20,000 women, Lowell, Massachusetts. 1966: David Miller and Russel Wills become first Seattle residents to refuse induction into armed forces to protest Vietnam War. Wills is later sentenced to two years in prison for his refusal.

Feb. 25. 1870: Hiram Revels becomes first black U.S. Senator. 1986: Mass demonstrations overthrow Marcos dictatorship, Manila, Philippines.

Feb. 26. 1991: U.S. air forces, in the infamous "turkey shoot," drop fuel-air bombs and massacre thousands of retreating Iraqi personnel on the Basra road from Kuwait into Iraq.

Feb. 27. 1973: Village of Wounded Knee, SD, occupied by American Indian Movement activists in response to campaign of terror by tribal and FBI officials.

Feb. 28. 1989: Nevada-Semipalatnisk Movement to Stop All Nuclear Testing founded in USSR. 1991: Three soldiers seek sanctuary as objectors to Gulf War in Riverside Church, New York City.

Feb. 29. 1968: The summary report of the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders faults excessive police force in U.S. ghettos.