Oct. 13. 1987: About 800 arrested in Washington DC in "Out and Outraged" action blockading the US Supreme Court on the first anniversary of Bowers v. Hardwick, a Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of anti-sodomy laws.

Oct. 14. 1773: American colonists burn a cargo ship in Annapolis, Maryland, two months before the "Boston Tea Party." 1981: Dock workers in Darwin, Australia, begin seven-day strike, refusing to load uranium on board "Pacific Sky" for eventual use by US military. After a week, the ship is forced to leave without its cargo.

Oct. 15. 1969: An estimated two million or more in US participate in first national moratorium against Vietnam War. Later, a declassified Kissinger file reveals that these protests discouraged a plan by Nixon to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.

Oct. 16. 1890: Reservation Police forcibly remove Kicking Bear from Standing Rock Agency, South Dakota, for teaching the Ghost Dance, a new Indian religion that foretold the disappearance of white people. 1916: Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic, New York City.

Oct. 17. 1988: About 600 arrested at Pentagon in a blockade protesting US war in Central America.

Oct. 18. 1648: First labor organization in American colonies authorized in Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1991: Massive public opposition known as the "Nevada Movement"--after the grassroots protests at the Nevada Test Site which inspired it--forces permanent closure of the primary Soviet nuclear test site, Semipalatinsk, in Central Asia.

Oct. 19. 1850: Mountain climber Annie Peck plants a "vote for women" sign atop the summit of 21,083-foot Coropuna, Peru. 1960: Martin Luther King, Jr., and 35 students choose jail after arrest for sit-in requesting service at the snack bar of Atlanta's Rich's department store.

Oct. 20. 1944: Beginning of Guatemalan revolution against US-backed dictator Pres. Ubico. 1994: US activist Jennifer Harbury initiates hunger strike at US Embassy in Guatemala City to force disclosure of her disappeared husband's fate.

Oct. 21. 1983: In first public action of the new Seattle Nonviolent Action Group (SNAG), 12 people blockade Boeing Cruise Missile plant in Kent all day. None are arrested.

Oct. 22. 1963: More than 200,000 students boycott schools in Chicago to protest de facto segregation.

Oct. 23. 1734: Birth of French writer, early communist theorist Restif de la Brettone. Chronicler of the Street during the French Revolution, inventor of the term "communism."

Oct. 24. 1975: Iceland: Tens of thousands of women hold a general strike. 1985: Iceland: Tens of thousands of women had so much fun during their general strike in 1975, they decide to do it again.

Oct. 25. 1881: Birth of Pablo Picasso, commie doodler. 1960: Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Decatur, Georgia. Held over on old traffic ticket charges, denied bail and sentenced to four months hard labor.

Oct. 26. 1880: Birth of Manuel Quintin Lame, leader of Indian revolt against forced labor and land seizures in Colombia. 1994: Declassified US government brief reveals that Panama's Manuel Noriega was paid more than $10 million as a US spy.