Apr. 27. 1521: Philippines natives with the right idea ambush and kill European explorer Ferdinand Magellan. 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.

Apr. 29. 1899: Their demand that only union men be employed refused, members of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) dynamite the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho, destroying it completely. Pres. McKinley responds by sending in black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas, with orders to round up thousands of miners & confine them in specially built "bullpens."

Apr. 30. 1986: First use of CS gas against anti-nuclear demonstrators, Wackersdorf, West Germany.

May 1. 1886: International Workers' Day (May Day) begins in Chicago. 340,000 U.S. workers 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. 1968: Protest at University of Nanterre escalates into French student strike. By May 13, over ten million French are out on a sympathy strike.

May 3. 1971: 7,000 people arrested in attempt to shut down the Pentagon. 1981: 100,000 protest U.S. intervention in El Salvador.

May 4. 1887: First modern communitarian experiment in Washington state, Puget Sound Cooperative Colony, founded at Port Angeles. 1961: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) begins organizing "Freedom Rides" to desegregate bus terminals in U.S. South.

May 5. 1780: Units in George Washington's Revolutionary War Camp in New Jersey mutiny, but the rebellion is put down by Pennsylvania troops. 2000: Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Moon. And we all know what that means.

May 6. 1970: Two students watching from a nearby dormitory tower are shot and killed by state police at anti-war demonstration, Jackson State University, Mississippi.

May 7. 1518: Juan de Grijalva's expedition, sailing the Yucatan coast, reports the Mayan city of Tulum is larger and as grand as Seville.

May 8. 1958: V.P. Richard Nixon shoved, stoned, booed, & spat upon by protesters in Peru. 1962: An estimated nine million people participate in a ten-minute work stoppage to protest nuclear weapons, Belgium.

May 9. 1960: FDA approves first oral contraceptive pill in U.S. 1969: New York Times reveals the United States has been secretly bombing Cambodia--officially a noncombatant, neutral country.

May 10. 105: Tsai Lun invents paper, China. 1920: English dock workers refuse to load armaments for use against Russia.