March 20. 1863: Pres. Lincoln makes proclamation offering lands of the Cowlitz (near Longview, Wash.) for sale, even through the tribe had never signed a treaty relinquishing them.

March 21. 1971: Following a high-speed chase, a Seattle police officer shoots and kills black suspect Leslie Allen Black. An inquest later finds the shooting "unjustified."

March 22. 1968: France: March 22nd Movement emerges--an organization with no hierarchy and no ideological program. Led directly to the nationwide May 1968 student-worker revolt.

March 23. 1871: France: Communes proclaimed in Lyon and Marseilles.

March 24.1965: First Vietnam teach-in, University of Michigan.

March 26. 1804: First official notice to Indians from US government to move all Indians west of Mississippi River.

March 27. 1951: Iran: Mossadeq nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

March 28. 1969: Anna Louise Strong, former Seattle School Board member and organizer of the 1919 Seattle general strike, dies in Beijing, China.

March 29. 1886: Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine). World conquest follows.

March 30. 1869: Birth of anarchist, feminist writer/activist Emma Goldman, Kaunas, Lithuania.

March 31. 1966: Two-day boycott of Seattle schools begins, protesting de facto segregation.

April 1. 1986: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors votes with uncanny timing to lobby the US Congress to rename the Angeles National Forest the "Reagan National Forest." Says Sierra Club spokesman Bob Hattoy, "Naming a national forest after Ronnie Reagan is like naming a day care center after W. C. Fields."

April 2. 1997: More than 200 citizens show up at a Seattle Dept. of Energy budget hearing, many in radiation suits and mutant radioactive survivor makeup, and conduct die-ins to protest possible restart of nuclear weapons production at Hanford. Five years later, the plan is finally shelved for good.

April 3. 1789: A Boston trader visits and describes Neah Bay, a principal village of the Makah.

April 4. 1967: Martin Luther King, Jr., preaches against Vietnam War and calls for common cause between civil rights and antiwar movements, Riverside Church, New York City. 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated, Memphis, Tenn., while visiting city in support of striking sanitation workers.

April 5. 1962: Billie Sol Estes indicted for selling millions of dollars' worth of chattel mortgages on nonexistent fertilizer tanks. Later immortalized by SCTV as Billie Sol Hurok, who always blowed 'em up real good.

April 8. 1872: Colville reservation created east of Columbia River; after white farmers pressure the government, a second reservation, on less arable land, is designated instead.

April 10. 1930: Birth of Dolores Huerta, prominent Chicana labor activist.

April 11. 1961: Folk singer Bob Dylan makes his public debut in New York City.

April 13. 1962: Rachel Carson's book indicting the pesticide industry, "Silent Spring," is published.

April 14. 1919: Seattle longshoremen begin 34-day strike.

April 16. 1854: "Army of the poor" leader Jacob Coxey born, Massillon, Ohio.

April 17. 1960: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) founded, Raleigh, North Carolina.

April 18. 1792: George Vancouver "discovers" Vancouver Island.

April 19. 1775: American Revolution begins with battles of Lexington and Concord, Mass.