April 26. 1655: Dutch West India Co. refuses to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam (later New York). 1937: Guernica Massacre, Spanish Civil War. Anti-fascist Basque city of Guernica, Spain is destroyed by German Nazi dive-bombing.

April 27. 1813: The US burns Toronto to the ground in an unsuccessful attempt to gain control of Lake Ontario. 1861: Pres. Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus due to the Civil War. Thousands are jailed for the duration of the conflict without charges.

April 28. 1945: Dachau concentration camp, near Munich, is liberated. 1953: After overthrow of democratically-elected government, the CIA installs the Shah of Iran, beginning a 25-year dictatorship in that country.

April 29. 1858: Publication in France of P.J. Proudhon's "Justice," with the memorable line, "Property is theft!" 1970: US invades and bombs Cambodia, widening the Vietnam War.

April 30. 1975: End of Vietnam War. Vietnam is reunited after 30 years of resistance to US domination and 100 years of French colonial rule.

May 1 1830: Birth of Irish-American antiwar activist and labor organizer Mary Harris, better known as Mother Jones. Cork, Ireland. 1886: International Workers' Day (May Day) begins in Chicago. 340,000 US workers in Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities strike for the eight-hour workday. Four demonstrators are killed and over 200 wounded when police attack the Chicago rally. US later sets another day as Labor Day to undercut world solidarity.

May 2. 1933: Adolf Hitler abolishes all labor unions in Germany. 1974: Former Vice President Spiro Agnew is disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals.

May 3. 1469: Birth of Niccoli Machiavelli. Italian political thinker and historical figure in the turning point from Middle Ages to Modern World.

May 4. 1886: During a demonstration protesting the previous day's murders, a bomb explodes in Haymarket Square, Chicago. Between the bomb and the indiscriminate police firing that followed, eight police are killed and 60 wounded. The "Haymarket Massacre" results in the arrest of eight leading anarchists for conspiracy to commit murder; four are later executed, one dies in prison and three are pardoned. 1989: Oliver North is convicted in the Iran-Contra Affair.

May 5. 1925: In Scopes Trial, John T. Scopes is tried for violating a Tennessee law that forbids the teaching of human evolution in schools. 1970: 3,000 University of Washington students march from UW campus to take over Interstate 5 as part of nationwide student strikes protesting the Kent State Massacre. 2000: Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Moon. And we all know what that means.

May 6. 1935: Works Projects Adminstration (WPA) established. 1979: Six weeks after Three Mile Island, 125,000 rally in Washington, D.C. to oppose nuclear power.

May 7. 1877: Sioux leader Crazy Horse arrested, taken to Fort Robinson, Nebraska, where he would be assassinated by US soldiers four months later. 1954: Viet Minh forces defeated French at Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam.

May 8. 1945: Nazi Germany is defeated, end of World War II in Europe. 1958: Vice President Richard Nixon shoved, stoned, booed, and spat upon by protesters in Peru.

May 9. 1933: First Nazi-inspired mass public book-burning, Germany. 1967: Muhammed Ali stripped of world heavyweight boxing title for refusing military draft.