Oct. 26. 1936: Hitler opens "Office for Combating Abortion and Homosexuality." 1994: Declassified US government brief reveals that Panama's Manuel Noriega was paid more than $10 million as a US spy.

Oct. 27. 1962: Two hundred thousand US troops assemble in Florida in preparation for invasion of Cuba.

Oct. 28. 1919: US Senate passes the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Act over Pres. Woodrow Wilson's veto. 1982: UN World Charter for Nature signed.

Oct. 29. 1940: First compulsory US peacetime draft initiated. 1970: Antiwar protesters pelt Pres. Nixon's motorcade with rocks and eggs in San Jose, California.

Oct. 30. 1270: Eighth and last crusade is launched. 1916: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union members forced to run gauntlet by some of Everett, Washington's finest citizens. 1980: Iran abruptly halts negotiations with Pres. Carter over hostages.

Oct. 31. 1918: Spanish flu virus kills 21,000 in US in one week. 1978: Thirty thousand Iranian oil workers strike against repressive rule of the US-installed Shah and for democracy, civil and human rights.

Nov. 1. 1866: First Civil Rights Act passed over veto of President Andrew Johnson. 1952: US tests first H-bomb, equivalent to 700 Hiroshimas. Entwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific.

Nov. 2. 1903: Pres. Theodore Roosevelt sends warships to protect the right to "free and uninterrupted transit" across the then-Colombian province of Panama. 1965: Norman Morrison, 32-year-old Quaker, father of three, immolates himself below Secretary of Defense McNamara's Pentagon window to protest Vietnam War.

Nov. 3. 1969: Pres. Nixon announces "Vietnamization" program to shift Vietnam fighting from US troops to US-trained local troops. 1979: Some 90 people, including 63 US citizens, are taken hostage at the US Embassy in Teheran, Iran by followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, who demand the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (at the time, undergoing medical treatment in New York City).

Nov. 4. 1811: Birth of Luddism: first attack on machines by disgruntled and masked workers, England. 1972: US Communist Party headquarters firebombed, New York City. 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is fatally shot minutes after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv's Kings Square in Israel.

Nov. 5. 1605: Gunpowder plot to blow up English Parliament detected. Leader Guy Fawkes and other Catholic conspirators are later hanged for the deed; over the next few months, English authorities also arrested, tortured, or killed dozens of innocent English Catholics.

Nov. 6. 1868: US-Lakota treaty signed at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. White settlers were violating provisions of the treaty, meant to keep settlers out of Indian territory, before the ink was dry. 1986: Iran-Contra scandal begins to break in US.

Nov. 7. 1972: After nine tries, Congress finally passes War Powers legislation, over Pres. Nixon's veto. It limits the President's power to commit armed forces to hostilities abroad without Congressional approval. It has been routinely ignored ever since.

Nov. 8. 1967: Five hundred University of Washington students protest against campus visit by recruiters for Dow Chemical. 1975: In a federal court, charges against eight National Guardsmen stemming from the 1970 Kent State shootings were dropped.