Mar. 26. 1804: First official notice to Indians from US government to move all Indians west of Mississippi River. 1819: Birth of Louise Otto, German author and feminist pioneer.

Mar. 27. 1814: Massacre of Tohopeka (Horseshoe Bend). Gen. Andrew Jackson overwhelms Creek Indian forces; to count the Creek dead, whites cut off their noses, piling 557 of them, and skinning bodies to tan hides for souvenirs. 1998: Five thousand demonstration in Washington, DC, in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and other political prisoners in the US.

Mar. 28. 1969: Anna Louise Strong, former Seattle School Board member and organizer of the 1919 Seattle General Strike, dies in Beijing, China. 1979: Plant failure and partial meltdown results in release of radioactivity at Three Mile Island nuclear power facility, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Mar. 29. 1923: War Resisters League founded, New York City. 1987: Vietnam Veterans For Peace marching from Jinotega reach Wicuili, Nicaragua.

Mar. 30. 1870: Ratification of 15th Amendment to US Constitution gives African-American men the right to vote. Poll taxes and literacy tests soon follow. 1967: Gurindji people occupy part of Wave Hill Station, Northern Territory, Australia.

Mar. 31. 1960: Pope John XXIII makes the Bishop of Rutabo the Catholic Church's first black African cardinal. 1992: ADAPT (American Disabled for Accessible Public Transport) sit in at Tennessee Health Care Association to fight health cuts, Nashville Tenn. Apr. 1. 1866: Congress overrides Pres. Andrew Johnson's veto of Civil Rights Bill and gives equal rights to all men born in the US except Indians. 1982: Pacific Peacemaker damaged by French police boats during nuclear weapons testing protest, Muroroa Atoll, South Pacific.

Apr. 2. 1966: 100,000 Vietnamese demonstrate in Da Nang against US and South Vietnamese governments. Civil unrest spreads to Hue and Saigon.

Apr. 3. 1963: Martin Luther King, Jr., launches a voter registration drive in Birmingham, Alabama. Police Chief "Bull" Connor responds with fire hoses and attack dogs. 1989: In Mississippi Choctaw Case, US Supreme Court upholds rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.

Apr. 4. 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated, Memphis, Tenn., at age 39, while visiting city in support of striking sanitation workers. Riots break out in scores of cities across the US.

Apr. 5. 1911: Victor Berger, Socialist Congressperson (Milwaukee), demands withdrawal of US troops from Mexican border, where they threatened the Mexican Revolution. 1992: Over 500,000 march on Washington, DC to support women's reproductive rights and equality.

Apr. 6. 1832: Black Hawk War begins when Sauk/Fox return to plant traditional corn fields and are repulsed by whites. 1952: Mass meetings of non-whites to protest against apartheid, South Africa.

Apr. 7. 1809: Birth of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Everglades Conservation activist. 1948: World Health Organization (WHO) formed in Geneva, with the stated goal of making health care available to everyone in the world by the year 2000.

Apr. 8. 563 BC: Birth of Gautama Buddha. 1973: A Harris Poll reports 51% in US support the American Indian Movement protesters occupying Wounded Knee; 21% support the federal government.