Mar. 12. 1971: Fourteen-hour vigil for abolition of NATO, Ministry of Defense, London, Britain. 1979: Grenadan revolution begins.

Mar. 13. 1962: Wing Luke becomes the first non-white to be elected to the Seattle City Council, and the highest Asian-American elected official in the continental US. 1968: Clouds of nerve gas drift outside the Army's Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, poisoning 6,400 sheep in nearby Skull Valley.

Mar. 14. 1968: Commission report publishes evidence of large-scale extermination of tribes (poisoning and machine-gunning) by Brazil's Indian Protection Service. Over 30 years later, such attacks are still alarmingly common. 1990: Sixteen disabled rights activists arrested at the US Capitol demanding passage of what would become the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Mar. 15. 1869: First federal women's suffrage amendment ever introduced in US Congress. 1997: Activists across Britain stage supermarket protests against genetically engineered foods.

Mar. 16. 1965: US Supreme Court extends rights of conscientious objection. 1998: In response to reported Serbian massacres in Drenica, in the ethnically Albanian province of Kosovo, 12,000 women, carrying loaves of bread, attempt to march 50 km to Drenica from the capital of Prishtina. They are turned back by police.

Mar. 17. 1876: US Army soldiers attack and massacre a sleeping village of Lakota, mistakenly believing it to be the encampment of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse. Powder River, South Dakota. 1974: 3,000 Ethiopian women workers march for equal pay and better labor conditions.

Mar. 18. 1840: Birth of Marilla Ricker, lawyer and suffragette. 1871: 1,000 women successfully blockade cannons in what becomes the "Paris Commune," Paris, France. 1918: First governmental plan for a "League of Nations" proposed by UK.

Mar. 19. 1859: Birth of Ellen Starr, co-founder of Hull House in Chicago. 1978: 50,000 march in Amsterdam to protest US deployment of the neutron bomb in Europe.

Mar. 20. 1815: Switzerland declares permanent neutrality in all wars. 1997: 300 family farmers protest factory-style hog farms at a National Pork Producers Council. Urbandale, Iowa.

Mar. 21. 1857: Birth of Alice Henry, editor and leader of Women's Trade Union League. 1960: South African police kill 89 protesters in Sharpeville and other towns during protests of apartheid pass laws. 1995: On the anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, newly democratic South Africa establishes March 21 as Human Rights Day.

Mar. 22. 1958: Women demonstrate against pass laws, South Africa. 1980: 30,000 march in Washington, DC against reintroduction of draft registration.

Mar. 23. 1974: Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) founded. 1997: Seven Univ. of East Timor students are killed by Indonesian police while attempting to meet in a hotel with UN human rights envoy Jamsheed Marker.

Mar. 24. 1956: Danilo Dolci and 22 others are tried in a Sicily court for the nonviolent direct action of attempting to repair an old road without proper government authorization. 1965: First Vietnam teach-in, Univ. of Michigan.

Mar. 25. 1826: Birth of Matilda Joslyn Gage, women's rights lecturer and suffrage historian. 1972: 30,000 in Children's March for Survival, Washington, DC, protesting welfare cuts. 1994: Last group of US soldiers leaves Somalia as civil war intensifies.