Feb. 13. 1968: Five soldiers arrested at pray-in for peace, Fort Jackson, SC.

Feb. 14. 1967: Treaty banning nuclear weapons in Latin America signed in Tlatelolco, Mexico. 1997: Last remaining Jahalin Bedoin families, who had been living in the Abu-Dis area of Palestine for over 40 years, are forcibly removed to make way for new Jewish settlements.

Feb. 15. 1966: Nisqually tribe engages in protest "fish-in" to demand treaty fishing rights. 1991: US planes bomb civilian shelter, killing at least 500, Baghdad, Iraq.

Feb. 16. 1870: Birth of Leonora O'Reilly, union leader and co-founder of NAACP. 1942: Conscientious objectors arrested after walking out of work camp, Merom, Indiana.

Feb. 17. 1495: Miguel de Cueno, a member of Columbus' second expedition, ships 550 captured Carib Indians to be slaves in Europe. 200 die at sea. 1970: 76 are arrested and 20 injured in a downtown confrontation between Seattle police and an anti-war demonstration organized by the Seattle Liberation Front.

Feb. 18. 1867: Nonviolent resistance to Austrian oppression results in separate constitution, Hungary. 1997: Political prisoner Osman Murat Ulke is one of 12 Turkish activists charged with "alienating the people from the military."

Feb. 19. 1990: Students at Tennessee State University, a primarily African-American school, sit in to demand equal funding. Nashville, TN. 1992: North and South Korea sign nuclear weapons ban.

Feb. 20. 1942: Norwegian teachers begin successful nonviolent strike against Nazification of schools. 1956: US rejects Soviet proposal to ban nuclear weapons tests and deployment.

Feb. 21. 1934: Twelve hundred assembly line workers at the Racine, Wisconsin Nash automobile plant go on strike. Plants in Milwaukee and Kenosha, with another 3,400, follow. After eight weeks of federal mediation, all workers receive raises of up to 17 percent, and unions at each plant win sole bargaining rights. 1971: More than 3,000 from US and Canada protest at Blaine (WA) border crossing against oil tanker traffic between Alaska and Puget Sound.

Feb. 22. 1943: Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old activist at Munich University, is executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government. 1997: Nearly 100,000 march in Paris against new anti-immigration bill sponsored by fascist far right.

Feb. 23. 1883: American Anti-Vivisection Society formed in Pennsylvania. 1982: Principality of Wales becomes a nuclear-free zone.

Feb. 24. 1966: David Miller and Russell Wills become first Seattle residents to refuse induction into armed forces to protest Vietnam war. Wills is later sentenced to two years in prison for his refusal. 1984: Nine "char-women" enter communications base to "clean" satellite dishes, Cornwall, Britain.

Feb. 25. 1642: Massacre of friendly Indians by Dutch Gov. Kiert of New York and soldiers of Staten Island. 120 Wecquaesgeek men, women and children asleep in their wigwams die. 1919: Released conscientious objectors return pay for non-combatant service to US government.

Feb. 26. 1976: Body of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash, in a murder never prosecuted but widely attributed to the FBI, is found in rural South Dakota.