Mar. 16. 1521: Birth of Nicolas Storch, medieval anarchist communist. 1831: Textile workers in Lawrence, Mass. strike.

Mar. 17. 1876: US Army soldiers attack and massacre a sleeping village of Lakota, mistakenly believing it to be the encampment of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse. Powder River, South Dakota.

Mar. 18. 1887: Non-reservation Spokane Indians agree to give up their land claims and move to Coeur d'Alene and Flathead reservations. 1962: Algerian Civil War ends in independence from France.

Mar. 19. 1968: Presidential advisors advise getting out of Vietnam War. 2003: US and UK launch invasion of Iraq, despite massive international protests.

Mar. 20. 1899: Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed by electrocution. She had tried to kill her 17-year-old stepdaughter with acid and an ax, but wound up smothering her with a pillow. Sing Sing Prison, NY. 1933: Nazis open first concentration camp in Dachau.

Mar. 21. 1806: Birth of Benito Juarez, Mexican hero and the country's first indigenous president. 1857: Birth of Alice Henry, editor and leader of Women's Trade Union League

Mar. 22. 1972: Thirteen member National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommends legalization of marijuana. 1980: Thirty thousand march in Washington, D.C. against reintroduction of draft registration.

Mar. 23. 1916: Black activist Marcus Garvey arrives in America, from Jamaica. He would be deported as an "undesirable alien" 11 years later. 1942: Birth of Ama Ata Aidoo. Ghanaian writer, who has depicted in her works the role of African woman in modern society.

Mar. 24. 1977: Argentina: Rodolfo Walsh writes an open letter to the military junta regards its infamous crimes; a day later, the dictatorship assassinates him. 1989: The Exxon Valdez destroys thousands of square miles of pristine wildlife habitat in the largest oil spill in US history. Exxon Corp. spends the next several years successfully avoiding lawsuits and obstructing cleanup efforts.

Mar. 25. 1915: Australia: Sisterhood of International Peace founded. 1934: Birth of feminist icon and, in her later years, Clinton and Democratic Party apologist Gloria Steinem.

Mar. 26. 1819: Birth of Louise Otto, German author and feminist pioneer. 1966: Over 50,000 march in Fifth Avenue Peace Parade in New York City.

Mar. 27. 1951: Iran: Mossadeq nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. 1964: An earthquake measuring 8.6 on the Richter scale, one of the largest ever recorded, flattens Anchorage, Alaska. The quake is felt as far away as Seattle.

Mar. 28. 1969: Anna Louise Strong, former Seattle School Board member and organizer of the 1919 Seattle general strike, dies in Beijing, China. 1983: Argentina: 96% of workers out on strike; military junta totters.

Mar. 29. 1917: Martial law declared in Spain to smash general strike. 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of selling US atomic secrets to the USSR. The case was pockmarked with glaring inconsistencies (and the chief evidence against them was the testimony of Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, a convicted co-conspirator)--but it was their fate to be tried during the height of McCarthyism. While most critics now concede Ethel was probably innocent, they were both executed in June 1953.