Jan. 24. 1952: End of Empire Zinc Strike, Silver City, New Mexico. 1955: Ira Hamilton Hayes, a Native American (Pima) who was one of six US Marines to raise the US flag at Iwo Jima, dies of exposure.

Jan. 25. 1787: Shay's Rebellion breaks out against imprisonment of Massachusetts farmers for debts. Daniel Shays and 800 followers march to Springfield to seize the Federal arsenal, but were repulsed by the Massachusetts State militia. 1890: United Mine Workers formed.

Jan. 26. 1856: In the first "Battle of Seattle," settlers drove Indians off their land so that a little town of white folks could prosper.

Jan. 27. 1863: Bear Hunter, leader of a Shoshone band, and 224 others massacred in village on Bear River near Great Salt Lake. 1957: For the second time in a year, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed.

Jan. 29. 1737: Thomas Paine, radical writer, born, Thetford, Britain. Will die in obscurity, still a revolutionary. 1834: Pres. Andrew Jackson orders first use of American troops to suppress a labor dispute.

Jan. 30. 1972: On "Bloody Sunday," British soldiers open fire and kill fourteen civilians during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland.

Jan. 31. 1865: By a narrow margin, the US House of Representatives passes the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery; it becomes part of the Constitution later that year. 1876: US government orders all Native Americans to move to reservations or be declared hostile. Some of them already were. (Hostile, that is.)

Feb. 1. 1960: Four black students sit in at a Woolworths' lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest segregation. By September 1961, more than 70,000 students, whites and blacks, will have participated in sit-ins.

Feb. 2. 1807: Foreign slave trade outlawed in US. 1931: The first US citizens are "repatriated" from the nation as Los Angeles Chicanos are deported to Mexico. As the Depression worsens, public officials across the Southwest decide it's cheaper to send legal residents back to Mexico than carry them on the welfare rolls. During the decade's first four years, well over 400,000 Mexican-Americans, many US citizens living here as long as 40 years, are repatriated.

Feb. 3. 1977: After legal secretary Iris Rivera loses job for refusing to make coffee, secretaries across Chicago join in protest.

Feb. 4. 1869: Birth of Big Bill Haywood, founder of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Salt Lake City, Utah.

Feb. 5. 1994: White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith convicted of killing Medgar Evers in 1963, Jackson, Mississippi. 2001: Fifty-four ancient statues of Buddha sledgehammered by Taliban, National Museum, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Feb. 6. 1919: In one of the largest labor demonstrations in US history, the Seattle General Strike takes control of the city of Seattle in support of 32,000 striking longshoremen. 1956: Autherine Lucy, the first black student to enter the University of Alabama, is suspended after three days of riots due to her presence. It is not clear why the University did not elect to suspend the rioters.