Nov. 7. 1913: Birth of Albert Camus, Mondovi, Algeria. In 1959, after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he starts the review "Freedom," in support of conscientious objectors.

Nov. 8. 1892: 30,000 black and white workers stage general strike, New Orleans, demanding union recognition, closed shops, and hour and wage gains. Joined by non-industrial laborers: musicians, textile workers, clerks, streetcar drivers, and printers.

Nov. 9. 1880: French teacher/anarchist Louise Michel, freed by amnesty after nine years in prison, is met in Gare Saint-Lazare by an enormous crowd which cheers her with cries of "Vive Louise Michel, vive la Commune, A bas les assassins!"

Nov. 10. 1835: Birth of Lakshmibai, Varanasi, India. At age eight, Lakshmibai marries the raja of Jhansi. When her husband dies in 1853, the English seize Jhansi and deny Lakshmibai the throne. During the Great Rebellion (which the British call the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857) Lakshmibai joins the rebels and trains an army of women to defend her fortress. In 1858, she is forced to abandon Jhansi, but escapes with most of her troops. Male rebel leaders ignore her warnings of imminent British attack. Lakshmibai dies in the ensuing battle while commanding 300 troops. She becomes a national heroine in India.

Nov. 11. 1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, D.C. The memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin, a young Asian-American woman who, as a Yale undergrad, submitted the winning entry among more than 1,400 participants. The dedication ceremony is attended by thousands of veterans, their families, and friends, but no representatives of the administrations that conducted the war.

Nov. 12. 1983: Washington, D.C.: 25,000 protest invasion of Grenada and U.S. intervention in Central America.

Nov. 13. 1969: In New York, bombs explode over several days in the RCA building, Rockefeller Center, the GM building, the Chase Manhattan Plaza, the United Fruit Company pier, the Criminal Courts building, the Marine Midland Grace Trust Company, and other buildings to protest Vietnam War policy.

Nov. 14. 1957: One hundred fifty thousand metalworkers rally against re-armament, Baden-Wuerttemberg, West Germany.

Nov. 15. 1939: Social Security Administration approves first unemployment check.

Nov. 16. 1747: Knowles Riot in Boston. Hundreds of sailors, laborers, and free blacks rise up against British Navy Press Gangs, temporarily ending imprisonment.

Nov. 17. 1979: The Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran orders the release of 13 female and black hostages in Teheran, citing American women and African-Americans as among the groups oppressed by the government of the United States.

Nov. 18. 1919: Seattle printers refuse to print anti-labor ad in newspaper.

Nov. 19. 1797: Probable birth date of Isabella Baumfree, New York. Freed in 1827 by the New York State Emancipation Act. After a divine revelation in 1843, changed her name to Sojouner Truth and begins speaking for emancipation of African-Americans' and women's rights.

Nov. 20. 1993: Alliance for Animals members protest at Wisconsin's Devils Lake State Park on the opening day of deer-hunting season. The activists spent part of last night hiking through woods in the area so their scent would scare deer away.