Jan. 1. 1983: Women break into cruise missile base and dance on silos. Greenham Common, Britain. 1992: Women again dance on missile silos, US Air Force Base, Greenham Common, Britain.

Jan. 2. 1996: An estimated 100,000 Bangladeshi women travel from the countryside to attend a rally in Dacca, the capital, to protest Islamic clerics' attacks on women's education and employment.

Jan. 3. 1961: Nuclear reactor explodes at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls, killing 3 military technicians and releasing a surge of radioactivity which, in the words of John A. McCone, Director of the Atomic Energy Commission, was "largely confined" to the reactor building. One technician was blown to the ceiling of the containment dome and impaled on a control rod. His body remained there until it was taken down 6 days later. The men were so heavily exposed to radiation that their hands and heads had to be buried separately with other radioactive waste.

Jan. 4. 1945: In Raguse, Sicily, Maria Occhipinti, lies down in front of army trucks which come to find new young conscripts to incorporate into the new Italian army. Within minutes, a crowd surrounds the soldiers, forcing them to release their recruits, but kill a demonstrator and set off a major revolt. The city falls to the insurgents and resists governmental troops for 3 days, falling only after the death of many townspeople.

Jan. 5. 1964: Committee Against Nuclear Power Plants in New York stops plant planned for Queens.

Jan. 6. 1937: Abraham Lincoln Brigade formed to fight Spanish fascism. Part of the International Brigade, it will fight valiantly on the Aragon front and in defense of Madrid. Some 4,000 American men and women fight; nearly 2,000 of them die of wounds or disease. One of the casualties is Oliver Law, an African American who came to command the entire Lincoln Battalion. Law is the first black man known to command white US troops.

Jan. 7. 1939: Tom Mooney, labor activist, freed after 22 years in jail on false charges. Convicted of murder in connection with a 1916 San Francisco bomb explosion.

Jan. 8. 1864: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, first AFL woman organizer, born. 1912: African National Congress founded, South Africa.

Jan. 9. 1879: At 9 PM, younger warriors begin Cheyenne Outbreak at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

Jan. 10. 1998: Over 20,000 villagers from the Narmada Valley of central India occupy the partially built site of the new, World Bank-funded Maheshwar Dam.

Jan. 11. 1912: Beginning of IWW-organized "Bread and Roses" textile strike of 32,000 women and children at Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Jan. 12. 1987: 20 West German judges arrested for blockading the US Air Force base at Mutlangen, West Germany.

Jan. 13. 1971: Arrest of Pepe Beunza, first of many political conscientious objectors imprisoned in Spain.

Jan. 14. 1991: An estimated 30,000-60,000 rally at Seattle Central Community College in vigil and opposition to pending US invasion of Kuwait and Iraq. Protesters occupy Seattle's Federal Building, U of W protesters block I-5, Evergreen State College students occupy the state capitol building overnight.