Feb. 16. 1828: Red Bird (Wanig-Suckka), Winnebago chief, dies in US prison. 1916: Emma Goldman arrested in New York for lecturing on birth control.

Feb. 17. 1793: Alexander McGillivray, Cree Indian leader, dies.

Feb. 18. 1546: Reformation leader Martin Luther dies. 1919: Fifty thousand strikers tie up Barcelona, Spain.

Feb. 19. 1858: Leschi, chief of the Nisqually and Yakama, is hanged for leading attack on Seattle. 1976: Four recruits die at Fort Dix, New Jersey of a new flu virus which is a hybrid of Asian flu with one that causes flu-like illness in pigs ("swine flu"). Worries about an epidemic similar to the 1918-19 swine flu epidemic, which affected 500,000 Americans. Big vaccination campaign started. The epidemic never materialized.

Feb. 20. 1725: Ten sleeping Indians scalped by Capt. Lovewell and troops at Wakefield (in what will be New Hampshire) for scalp bounty. First recorded instance of scalping. 1834: Oneida Community founded in upstate New York, as a communistic community in which work and life are to be shared. Friendly cooperation with the surrounding Indian tribes is actively sought and achieved.

Feb. 21. 1965: Malcolm X assassinated, Audubon Ballroom, New York City. 1994: Government officials and Zapatistas begin peace talks in Chiapas, Mexico.

Feb. 22. 1900: Birth of Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996), writer about working-class women and justice seeker. 1974: Sam Lovejoy topples weather tower for proposed nuclear power plant, Montague, Mass. First act of civil disobedience against nuclear power in the United States.

Feb. 23. 1936: Puerto Rican nationals assassinate Puerto Rico's US police chief, E. Francis Riggs. 1972: Angela Davis is released from prison (after 16 months). She goes on trial five days later.

Feb. 24. 1821: Mexico declares independence from Spain. 1928: Birth of Michael Harrington, writer and activist on poverty and economic issues.

Feb. 25. 1859: Dan Sickles becomes first man in the United States to use now largely discarded plea of insanity to prove innocence. 1968: Discussing the war capacity of a country that had been fighting for 23 years and had just staged the massive Tet Offensive, US General William C. Westmoreland states: "I do not believe Hanoi can hold up under a long war."

Feb. 26. 1877: Vancouver Island's first coal miner's union founded. 1991: US air forces, in the infamous "turkey shoot," drop fuel-air bombs and massacre thousands of retreating Iraqi conscripts on the Basra road from Kuwait.

Feb. 27. 1880: Birth of African American lesbian poet Angelina Weld Grimke. Like most black woman writers, her works will have very little visibility. 1894: Birth of Ernst Friedrich, founder of Berlin peace museum, Germany.

Feb. 28. 1901: Birth of Linus Pauling, Portland, Ore. Receives two Nobel prizes--one for physics and one for his early (1950s) anti-nuclear activism. 1941: Birth of Alice Brock. Her restaurant was immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Mar. 1. 1790: First US Census count includes slave and free Negroes. Indians were not included. 1943: Huge rally calls on US government to reconsider its refusal to offer sanctuary to Jewish refugees of Nazi Germany. Madison Square, New York City.