Aug. 10. 1792: People of Paris march to Tuilleries. 1948: Gay rights activist Harry Hay organizes what later becomes the Mattachine Society, a groundbreaking 1950's gay rights organization.

Aug. 11. 1861: The New York Daily News has its postal privileges revoked, and was suspended for 18 months, as a consequence of its hostility to the Civil War. 1970: United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez begins a hunger strike to protest union harassment by Teamsters officials.

Aug. 12. 1932: Voters of Arkansas make populist Democrat Hattie Carraway first woman elected to US Senate. 1982: Twelve arrested in sea blockade of first Trident submarine at Hood Canal, WA.

Aug. 13. 1818: Birth of Lucy Stone, feminist theorist, suffragist who supported African-American women's rights. 1892: Striking miners at Tracy City, TN, capture their mines and free 300 convict strikebreakers. 1945: H.G. Wells dies. Author, socialist, alien lover.

Aug. 14. 1815: Peace Society founded in New York. 1912: US Marines sent to Nicaragua, which was in default of loans to the US and Europe.

Aug. 15. 1947: After decades of nonviolent activism, India becomes the first major Third World country in the 20th century to win independence from colonial rule. Dozens more countries would follow in the next twenty years. 1967: Martin Luther King, Jr. urges a civil disobedience drive in northern cities and support of a peace candidate in the 1968 presidential elections (at Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta).

Aug. 16. 1911: Birth of Alternative economist E.F. Schumacher ("Small is Beautiful"), Bonn, Germany. 1987: The Harmonic Convergence, remember?

Aug. 17. 1971: Operation Omega brings food and medicine to war victims across closed India-East Pakistan (Bangladesh) border. 1982: First draft resister since Vietnam era convicted. Enten Eller given three years probation in Roanoke, VA, for refusing to register for the draft. Support demonstrations occur all over US.

Aug. 18. 1812: Lady Ludd "leads" Corn Market riot of women and boys, Leeds, England. 1920: Ratification of 19th Amendment in US, extending right to vote to women.

Aug. 19. 1814: Birth of Mary Ellen Pleasant, Underground Railroad supporter and mother of California civil rights. 1958: NAACP youth council begins sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters in Oklahoma.

Aug. 20. 1904: Miners seize town of Cripple Creek, CO, deport officials. 1981: Crow Indians barricade Hwy. 313 near Hardin, Montana, to protest non-Indian fishing on Bighorn River in Crow Reservation.

Aug. 21. 1944: Over 4,000 Spaniards take part in the Maquis uprising in Nazi-occupied Paris that begins today. Before long they were supported by regular troops from the Normandy beach-heads. 1971: Black liberation activist George Jackson and five others are assassinated by prison guards, San Quentin, CA.

Aug. 22. 1916: IWW begins free speech fight in Everett, WA. 1978: Sandanistas' capture of Nicaraguan National Palace starts revolution.

Aug. 23. 1900: Folk and protest singer Malvina Reynolds born, San Francisco, CA. Was refused her diploma by Lowell High School because her parents were opposed to US participation in World War I. 1933: British rulers release Mohandas Gandhi from Indian jail after a one-week fast.

August 24. 1954: Congress passes Communist Control Act, signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1967: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin throw 300 one-dollar bills from balcony onto floor of New York Stock Exchange, creating instant bedlam.

August 25. 1967: FBI circulates memo detailing plans to "disrupt" Black Liberation groups. Results in infamous "COINTELPRO" program.

August 26. 1786: Shay's Rebellion, armed insurrection, begins, Western Massachusetts.

August 27. 1859: First oil well is sunk in the United States. Its owner immediately decries environmental regulations.

August 28. 1919: Seattle mayor demands "hang or incarcerate all anarchists for life." 1963: Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech at March On Washington for Jobs, Peace and Freedom. 250,000 attend.

August 29. 1957: 2,300 people watch Nevada Nuclear test on-site, so U.S. Army can test the effects. Some observers later develop cancer.

August 30. 1967: US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first black justice on U.S. Supreme Court. 1999: East Timorese vote overwhelmingly for independence despite danger from Indonesian military.