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.

Feb. 13. 1692: Massacre of Scots by English army, Glencoe, Scotland. 1945: Over 50,000 killed in Allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany.

Feb. 14. 1986: Smithsonian Museum of Natural History agrees to return Native American skeletal remains for reburial when a clear biological or cultural link can be established.

Feb. 15. 1991: US planes bomb civilian shelter, killing at least 500, Baghdad, Iraq. 1997: In "Railway Tracks Action Day," some 15,000 in Wendland, Germany block and dismantle railroad lines scheduled to be used for shipment of nuclear waste.

Feb. 16. 1870: Birth of Leonora O'Reilly, union leader and co-founder of NAACP. 1916: Emma Goldman arrested in New York for lecturing on birth control. Feb. 17. 1975: Several hundred residents of Wyhl, Germany, occupy the construction site of a nuclear power plant. Police respond with water cannons and arrests; by the following week, 28,000 had joined the protest, and police withdrew for over a year. This is believed to have been the first such plant occupation in the world.

Feb. 18. 1867: Nonviolent resistance to Austrian oppression results in separate constitution, Hungary. 1965: Civil rights worker Jimmie Lee Jackson is beaten and shot by state police in Marion, Alabama. He dies eight days later.

Feb. 19. 1998: 300 Ohio State Univ. students interrupt a CNN infomercial for the Clinton Administration's planned military strike on Iraq, heckling White House representatives and peppering them with tough (and unanswered) questions. The PR debacle, broadcast live globally, galvanized anti-war efforts and may have single-handedly stopped the attacks.

Feb. 20. 1725: First recorded instance of scalping: perpetrated against Indian victims by Capt. Lovewell and troops at Wakefield, New Hampshire.

1942: Norwegian teachers begin successful nonviolent strike against Nazification of schools.

Feb. 21. 1972: Beginning of the trial of Fr. Philip Berrigan and six other nonviolent activists (The "Harrisburg Seven") in Harrisburg, PA for an alleged plot to kidnap Henry Kissinger. Proceedings later end in a mistrial.

Feb. 22. 1732: Birth of George Washington, last US President who could not tell a lie. 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.

Feb. 23. 1982: Principality of Wales becomes a nuclear-free zone. 1998: A UN-brokered deal forces the US to reluctantly give up plans for a new series of military strikes against Iraq.

Feb. 24. 1965: District 1199 Health Care Workers becomes first US labor union to oppose war in Vietnam. 1991: US troops begin land invasion of Kuwait and Iraq.

Feb. 25. 1870: Hiram Revels becomes first black US Senator. 1932: British volunteers organize nonviolent "Peace Army" to attempt to intervene in fighting in China.