Oct. 11. 1987: Over 750,000 gays, lesbians, and bisexuals descend upon Washington, D.C. for a march to demand civil rights. Now celebrated each year as National Coming Out Day.

Oct. 12. 1492: Christopher Columbus, lost and confused, runs aground. Tragedy ensues. 1911: Society of American Indians formed in Columbus, Ohio, beginning of Pan-Indianism.

Oct. 13. 1987: About 800 arrested in Washington, D.C. in "Out and Outraged" action blockading the U.S. Supreme Court on the anniversary of a decision upholding the constitutionality of anti-sodomy laws.

Oct. 14. 1981: Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges U.S. government with retaining as political prisoner Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement.

Oct. 15. 1961: 7,000 march for nuclear disarmament. La Louviere, Belgium. 1969: An estimated two million or more in U.S. participate in first national moratorium against Vietnam War.

Oct. 16. 1890: Reservation Police forcibly remove Kicking Bear from Standing Rock Agency, South Dakota, for teaching the Ghost Dance, a new Indian religion that foretold the disappearance of white people. 1919: Deportation Act for anarchist aliens enacted.

Oct. 17. 1950: "Salt of the Earth" strike begins in Silver City, New Mexico; strikers' wives walk picket lines for seven months during 14-month strike. 1966: Anarchist collective "The Diggers" holds its first free street feed in San Francisco.

Oct. 18. 1648: First labor organization in American colonies authorized in Massahusetts Bay Colony. 1991: Massive public opposition known as the "Nevada Movement"--after the grassroots protests at the Nevada Test Site which inspired it--forces permanent closure of the primary Soviet nuclear test site, Semipalatinsk, in Central Asia.

Oct. 19. 1960: U.S. imposes a "temporary" trade embargo on Cuba following nationalization of U.S. enterprises. The embargo has never been lifted. 1964: Seattle CORE announces a campaign to boycott downtown Seattle merchants for discriminatory hiring practices.

Oct. 20. 1963: Between 3,000 and 5,000 rally at Seattle's Garfield High School in support of an open housing ordinance for the city.

Oct. 21. 1967: 700 arrested, dozens injured as 100,000 march on and encircle Pentagon to protest Vietnam War. 1983: In first public action of the new Seattle Nonviolent Action Group (SNAG), 12 people blockade Boeing Cruise Missile plant in Kent for the entire day.

Oct. 22. 1968: Over 300,000 protesters mark International Antiwar Day in Japan. 1983: Capping a week of protests, over two million people in six European cities march against U.S. deployment of cruise and Pershing nuclear missiles.

Oct. 23. 1956: Hungarian revolution begins; "security" forces shoot unarmed demonstrators in Budapest. 1983: U.S. Marine intervention in Lebanon ends in disaster when a terrorist suicide bomb kills 214 servicemen.

Oct. 24. 1940: The 40-hour work week goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. 1945: United Nations charter comes into effect.