Jan. 30. 1956: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed. 1972: On "Bloody Sunday," British soldiers open fire and kill fourteen civilians during a civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Jan. 31. 1968: A Seattle City Council hearing concludes that there are no legal means to curb hippies in the U-District. 1993: 300,000 Berliners rally against attacks on immigrants, racism, and Nazism on the 60th anniversary of Hitler's rise to power.

Feb. 1. 1960: Four black students sit in at a Woolworths' lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest segregation. Similar protests later take place all over the South and in some northern communities.

Feb. 2. 1779: Anthony Benezet refuses to pay revolutionary war taxes. 1972: In response to the Bloody Sunday killings, an Irish mob torches the British Embassy in Dublin.

Feb. 3. 1690: First paper money issued in America by Anglo colonists to pay soldiers in war against Quebec. 1977: After legal secretary Iris Rivera loses job for refusing to make coffee, secretaries across Chicago join in protest.

Feb. 4. 1970: After 35 days, the Menominee Indians end their occupation of an unused Gresham, WI Roman Catholic novitiate, when the church promises to deed it to them for a tribal hospital. 1987: Congress overrides Pres. Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act.

Feb. 5. 1991: Forty-nine German troops conscientiously object to going to Turkey for Gulf War. 1994: Byron De La Beckwith convicted of killing Medgar Evers in 1963. Jackson, Mississippi.

Feb. 6. 1973: Two hundred American Indian Movement protesters clash with police for three days in Custer, SD, over murder of Wesley Bad Heart; 37 arrested. 1985: Peace camp evicted by army at CIA base, Molesworth, Britain.

Feb. 7. 1876: War Dept. authorizes Gen. Sheridan to commence operations against "hostile" Lakota, including bands of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. 1993: Women's tribunal against rape in war, Zagreb, Croatia.

Feb. 8. 1968: Police kill four and wound 33 as black students protest at a segregated bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina. 1986: After huge popular protests, "Baby Doc" Duvalier flees from Haiti, ending 35 years of US-sponsored dictatorship.

Feb. 9. 1915: World Union of Women for International Concord founded, Geneva. 1971: Protests led by the Oriental Student Union briefly close Seattle Central Community College.

Feb. 10. 1961: Voice of Nuclear Disarmament pirate radio station begins operation off shore of Britain. 1971: National protests against US invasion of Laos include 1,500 protesters and nine arrests at the Univ. of Washington.

Feb. 11. 1790: Long after colonists had invaded upstate New York and natives had fought back successfully (including in alliance with the British during the American Revolution), US signs first treaty with Iroquois.

Feb. 12. 1947: Between 400 and 500 veterans and conscientious objectors from World Wars I and II burn their draft cards in two demonstrations, in front of the White House in Washington and at the Labor Temple in New York City, in protest of a proposed universal conscription law. First draft card burning in US.