May 24. 1906: British suffragist Dora Montefiore protests lack of women's vote by refusing to pay taxes and barricading her house against bailiffs. 1943: March against anti-Semitism leads to stop in Jewish deportations, Bulgaria.

May 25. 1776: Continental Congress resolves "highly expedient to engage Indians in service of the United Colonies," and authorizes recruiting 2,000 paid auxiliaries. Program was a dismal failure, as virtually every tribe refused to fight for the colonists.

May 26. 1972: Anti-Ballistic Missile (SALT I) Treaty signed by U.S. and USSR.

May 27. 1998: 120,000 South Korean students and workers go out on strike, protesting international finance's demands for social service cutbacks and austerity measures.

May 28. 1830: Pres. Andrew Jackson's recommendation to move all Indians west of Mississippi River--a relocation plan later used as a model by South Africa's apartheid leaders--becomes law. 1946: General strike paralyzes Rochester, New York.

May 29. 1962: Buck (John) O'Neil is the first black coach in major-league baseball, for the Chicago Cubs. 1967: Poor Peoples' Campaign begins in Washington D.C.

May 30. 1901: Russian writer Maxim Gorky, arrested on charges of printing revolutionary literature, is released from prison after Count Leo Tolstoy intercedes on his behalf. Gorky will serve a similar role by interceding on the behalf of many writers victimized by Stalin's regime.

May 31. 1982: Vancouver Island, Canada: "ecoterrorists," including Gerry Hannah, bass player for the punk rock group Subhumans, blows up BC hydro power substation.

June 1. 1914: 80 militia men refuse to board train as reinforcement for U.S. invasion of Veracruz, Mexico. 1925: General Strike in Shanghai begins. Part of ongoing labor insurgency throughout all China's industrial cities.

June 2. 1863: Harriet Tubman frees 750 slaves in raid. 1989: 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tienanmen Square, Beijing.

June 3. 1657: The Parliamentarian Army kidnaps Charles I, England. 1948: Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.

June 4. 1864: The alcoholic Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's military tactics during his first month in command of the Union Armies result in the deaths of 60,000 Union soldiers--more Americans than were killed in the entire Vietnam War. He is later rewarded with the Presidency. 1989: Chinese army massacres at least 2,000 unarmed student demonstrators, Tienanmen Square, Beijing.

June 5. 1967: 40 Chicanos stage armed raid on Tierra Armarilla, New Mexico. The group claimed 2,500 square miles of territory in New Mexico, which they said Spain granted to their ancestors. Two policemen were wounded, and 11 prisoners at the County Court House were "liberated."

June 6. 1780: Rebellious hordes storm and set fire to Newgate Prison in London. 1988: George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989).