Jan. 17. 1863: Mangas Colorado, Apache chief, agrees to peace talks, is then arrested and imprisoned at Fort McLane (Arizona), then shot by two soldiers in his cell. 1968: Eartha Kitt disrupts White House luncheon giving her views on poverty and the Vietnam War.

Jan. 18. 1958: Lumbee Indians drive Ku Klux Klan off their land in Maxton, NC. 1998: More than 2000 indigenous Tzeltals and Tojolbals from the Mexican state of Chiapas occupy the military barracks of the 39th Military Zone in protest over Mexican Army incursions into their communities.

Jan. 19. 1968: Lower Elwha band, after decades of struggle, are allotted reservation land on Olympic Peninsula. 1971: Indian fishing rights organizer Hank Adams is shot in Tacoma.

Jan. 20. 1920: American Civil Liberties Union founded. 1994: Nebraska State Historical Society agrees to return burial remains and artifacts to Pawnee tribe.

Jan. 21. 1647: Margaret Brent becomes first U.S. woman to ask for vote (in Maryland assembly). 1661: Quaker Peace Testimony presented to Charles II, England.

Jan. 22. 1932: 500 New York City tenants battle police to prevent evictions. 1996: Fifteen are arrested at Rep. Norm Dicks' office in Tacoma for protesting clearcut logging under the salvage logging rider.

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. 1890: United Mine Workers formed.

Jan. 26. 1907: Congress passes an act forbidding corporations from contributing to election campaigns for national office. 1969: Edwin Pratt, director of Seattle Urban League, is assassinated; police involvement is widely suspected. An arrest is never made in the case.

Jan. 27. 1957: For the second time in a year, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed. 1977: In one of his first acts as President, Jimmy Carter pardons some 10,000 Vietnam draft resisters.

Jan. 28. 1853: Birth of Jose Marti, hero of Cuban independence. 1995: Over 100 Solders' Mothers Committee members go to Russian army training camp to reclaim their sons from the Army.

Jan. 29. 1889: 6,000 railway workers strike for union and end of 18-hour day. 1996: Bowing to massive international pressure, French President Jacques Chirac orders an early end to a planned series of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

Jan. 30. 1972: On "Bloody Sunday," British soldiers open fire and kill fourteen civilians during a civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.