Jan. 4, 1960: Albert Camus killed at 46, in an automobile accident near Sens. 1965: Free Speech Movement (FSM) holds first legal rally on Sproul Plaza, University of California at Berkeley.

Jan. 5, 1869: First black labor convention in U.S. 1914: Ford Motor Company raises its basic wage from $2.40 for a nine-hour day to $5 for an eight-hour day.

Jan. 6, 1864: U.S. Army captures 11,000 Navajos, later force-marching them 400 miles to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, killing thousands. Thousands more died of starvation after the army burned all Navajo crops and orchards.

Jan. 7, 1800: Revolution in Switzerland. 1911: First airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco. 1979: Pol Pot is overthrown as genocidal leader of Cambodia after Vietnam invades the country to stop the carnage.

Jan. 8, 1912: African National Congress founded, South Africa. 1992: President George Bush gets ill and pukes on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour.

Jan. 9, 1964: U.S. troops kill 21 protesters in Panama Canal Zone. Panama suspends relations with U.S. after riots over American control of the Canal. 1991: Ten midwestern peace activists are arrested at Fort McCoy for handing out written warnings to military reservists about participation in war crimes.

Jan. 10, 1776: Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published, anonymously. 1920: Versailles Treaty comes into force, establishing League of Nations. 1998: Over 20,000 villagers from the Narmada Valley of central India occupy the partially built site of the new, World Bank-funded Maheshwar Dam.

Jan. 11, 1908: A prominent young lawyer, Mohandas Gandhi, is jailed for the first time, for refusing to register as an Asian. Johannesburg, South Africa. 1964: U.S. Surgeon General issues report linking cigarette smoking and lung cancer.

Jan. 12, 1493: Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily. 1900: Freeland utopian colony founded at Holmes Harbor, Whidby Island, Island County, north of Seattle, Washington.

Jan. 13, 1777: Jefferson gets Virginia to make "sodomy" punishable by castration.

Jan. 14, 1878: U.S. Supreme Court rules unconstitutional any state law requiring railroads to provide equal accommodations for passengers, regardless of race or color. 1914: Henry Ford's assembly line begins production of the Model T. Each car requires 90 minutes for assembly.

Jan. 15, 1771: "Bloody Act" passes North Carolina assembly, making rioters guilty of treason. 1870: Democratic Party first depicted as an ass, in a political cartoon appearing in "Harper's Weekly."

Jan. 16, 1776: Continental Congress approves General George Washington's order to enlist free Negroes. 2000: Ten Greenpeace protesters board damaged British nuclear submarine, Gibraltar.

Jan. 17, 1902: Washington State Federation of Labor formed. 1961: Pres. Eisenhower, in his farewell address, warns against "the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." 1977: Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore executed by a Utah firing squad in the first exercise of capital punishment in the U.S. in 10 years. Gilmore opposed all attempts to delay the execution; his last words: "Let's do it!" Gilmore was the illegitimate grandson of magician Harry Houdini.