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.

Jan. 15. 1929: Congress passes the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, signed by 62 nations, outlawing war.

Jan. 16. 1969: Jan Palach immolates himself to protest Soviet invasion of summer 1968. Wenceslas Square, Prague, Czechoslovakia. 1991: US invades Kuwait and Iraq. Several dozen US troops and up to 400,000 Iraqi citizens die in the following weeks. Over 1,000,000 Iraqis die due to the following twelve years of US-led global economic sanctions.

Jan. 17. 1920: Finland: SS Buford, full of labor activists and radicals kicked out of the US during the Palmer Raids, lands at Hange. Two days later the deportees are met at the Russo-Finnish border by Russian representatives and received warmly at a mass meeting of soldiers and peasants in Belo-Ostrov.

Jan. 18. 1958: Lumbee Indians drive Ku Klux Klan off their land in Maxton, North Carolina.

Jan. 19. 1808: Birth of utopian, individualist anarchist Lysander Spooner. Massachusetts abolitionist and anti-monopolist. Spooner set up a private postal service so successful that the federal government decided to outlaw it.

Jan. 20. 1920: American Civil Liberties Union founded by Roger Baldwin, Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, labor leaders Rose Schneiderman and Duncan McDonald, Rabbi Judah Magnes, and others.

Jan. 21. 1938: Emma Tenayuca leads pecan shellers strike, San Antonio, Texas. 1977: Jimmy Carter issues unconditional pardon to Vietnam draft resisters. Affects between 100,000 to 500,000 people.

Jan. 22. 1991: Fourteen ACT-UP AIDS activists are arrested disrupting CBS, NBC, and PBS evening news broadcasts with "Fight AIDS, not Arabs" banners.

Jan. 23. 1930: British India: Subhaschandra Bose and 11 others sentenced to one year in prison for Calcutta parade against imperialism. 1978: Two-week strike against US-backed Somoza dictatorship begins, Nicaragua. Beginning of 18-month insurrection that brings Sandanista triumph.

Jan. 24. 1921: Death of Cap'n Streeter, Chicago. His scow, the "Reutan," ran aground on a sandbar in Lake Michigan on the Chicago waterfront. The wreck caused the sandbar to grow, marshland filled it in, and Streeter proclaimed it a free district open to the poor, homeless, tramps, etc. He successfully defended his territory against Chicago cops and developers until his death.

Jan. 25. 1851: Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio.

Jan. 26. 1788: Australia: A fleet of 11 ships lands in Port Jackson after sailing with the continent's first 1,030 English settlers, including 736 convicts. England will ship more than 160,000 men, women, and children in bondage to Australia in the largest forced exile of citizens by a European government in pre-modern history. 1988: Australia: Aborigines mark 200th anniversary as "invasion day."

Jan. 27. 1988: Center for Constitutional Rights reveals the FBI had under surveillance a number of organizations critical of Reagan administration policies in Central America, including the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), the Roman Catholic Maryknoll Sisters, the United Auto Workers, the United Steel Workers, and the National Education Association.