Apr. 27. 1813: The US burns Toronto to the ground in an unsuccessful attempt to gain control of Lake Ontario. 1977: Soweto protest starts demonstration against South African apartheid educational system.

Apr. 28. 1977: Mothers hold first rally for the disappeared at Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Apr. 29. 1858: Publication in France of P.J. Proudhon's "Justice," with the memorable line, "Property is theft!" 1992: An all-white jury acquits 4 Los Angeles policemen of charges resulting from the beating of Rodney King. Riots and civil disturbances break out in LA, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and numerous other cities.

Apr. 30. 1970: Announcement of secret US bombing and invasion of previously neutral Cambodia prompts demonstrations at college campuses across US. Four days before Kent State, National Guard troops fire shotguns on protesters at Ohio State University, injuring 7.

May 1. 1890: May Day labor demonstrations spread to 13 other countries; 30,000 march in Chicago as the newly prominent American Federation of Labor throws its weight behind the eight-hour day campaign. 1948: Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham, AL for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes."

May 2. 1911: First worker compensation law in US enacted in Wisconsin. 1971: Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland address a G.I. Anti-War Rally in Tacoma.

May 3. 1919: Folk singer Pete Seeger born, Patterson, NY. 1981: In Washington DC 100,000 protest US intervention in El Salvador.

May 4. 1887: First modern communitarian experiment in Washington state: Puget Sound Cooperative Colony founded at Port Angeles. 1970: Four students killed, 15 others wounded when National Guard opens fire on anti-war demonstration at Kent State Univ., OH.

May 5. 1970: In response to Kent State killings, protests engulf campuses across United States. The first protest occupation of I-5 occurs in Seattle as 1,000 UW marchers spontaneously seize the freeway. 1991: Last US cruise missile leaves Greenham Common Air Base, Britain, site of a decade of women's anti-nuclear protests.

May 6. 1935: Works Projects Adminstration (WPA) established. 1952: Death of Maria Montessori, radical pacifist educator. 1979: Six weeks after Three Mile Island, 125,000 rally in Washington DC to oppose nuclear power.

May 7. 1518: Juan de Grijalva's expedition, sailing the Yucatan coast, reports the Mayan city of Tulum is larger and as grand as Seville. 1984: American veterans of the Vietnam War reached an out-of-court settlement with 7 chemical companies in their class-action suit relating to use of the herbicide "Agent Orange."

May 8. 1876: Peter Maurin, co-founder of Catholic Worker movement, born. 1958: VP Richard Nixon shoved, stoned, booed, and spat upon by protesters in Peru.

May 9. 1960: FDA approves first oral contraceptive pill in US. 1973: End of American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded Knee, SD. Protesters and US sign agreement in which the US government agrees to examine Lakota treaty rights; due to government inaction, the treaty never takes effect.

May 10. 1967: Capt. Howard Levy jailed 3 years for refusing to train US soldiers for Vietnam. 1994: Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa, ending 300 years of white colonial rule.