Jan. 5. 1835: Birth of American feminist Olympia Brown, Praire Ronde, Michigan. 1964: Committee Against Nuclear Power Plants in New York stops plant planned for Queens.

Jan. 6. 1831: First world anti-slavery convention held. 1970: West Virginia miners go on a wildcat strike to protest the murder of their union reform leader.

Jan. 7. 1800: Revolution in Switzerland. 1971: Federal courts enjoin most uses of the pesticide DDT, nine years after the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring."

Jan. 8. 1864: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, first AFL woman organizer, born. Organized the Woman's Bookbinder Union in 1880 and a founder of the National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) in 1903. 1912: African National Congress founded, South Africa.

Jan. 9. 1859: Birth of Carrie Chapman Catt, pacifist and suffragist, co-founder of Women's Peace Party in 1915, co-founder of League of Women Voters. 1909: First issue of LaFollette's Weekly, predecessor to the Progressive.

Jan. 10. 1870: Against unanimous opposition of his cabinet, President Grant proposes to Congress that the Dominican Republic be annexed by the United States. 1961: First black students enroll at Univ. of Georgia in Athens, GA, leading to riots the following day.

Jan. 11. 1887: Birth of American naturalist Aldo Leopold, whose "Sand Country Almanac" is an early environmentalist classic. 1998: Twenty-five thousand occupy Namada dam site in Western India, a World Bank funded megaproject slated to submerge 61 villages.

Jan. 12. 1882: Christian Christiansen, antimilitarist activist, born, Cornwall, Denmark. 1994: Tens of thousands march in Mexico City; government declares ceasefire with Zapatistas in Chiapas.

Jan. 13. 1898: Birth of Kaj Munk. Danish playwright and priest, whose outspoken sermons and plays during World War II led to his murder. Believing the truths of Christianity can be realized only in action, his plays appealed to Danes to resist the occupiers. On January 4, 1944, Munk was taken from his home by the Gestapo and shot. 1993: Vigil against arrival of ship bringing plutonium for nuclear reactor, Tokai, Japan.

Jan. 14. 1888: Birth of Maurice Dommanget, Paris. Labor historian and revolutionary syndicalist. 1981: Just before being replaced by Ronald Reagan, Pres. Jimmy Carter authorizes sending combat equipment to Salvadoran junta.

Jan. 15. 1877: Standing Bear, Ponca chief, refuses to move to reservation because it is within lands already given to Lakota. 1929: Congress passes the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, signed by 62 nations, outlawing war. Yup.

Jan. 16. 1933: Birth of Susan Sontag, American essayist and novelist; opposed Vietnam War. Her post-Sept. 11 essay in the New Yorker, mildly questioning US government characterizations of the attack, raised a firestorm of criticism and was the first indication of how little tolerance there would be for mainstream dissent against Bush's policy choices in response to the attack.

Jan. 17. 1938: Birth of Martha Cotera, Chicana feminist, librarian, and civil rights worker. 1970: Chicano activists gather in Crystal City, TX to found Raza Unida Party.

Jan. 18. 1922: Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and several Republican comrades take over the Rotunda in Dublin; they will hold the building for several days.