July 10. 1376: The "Good Parliament" closes. Never to be replaced. 1509: Birth of Calvin. Hobbes came later. 1917: Emma Goldman jailed two years for inciting US draft resisters. 1976: KKK members near Georgetown, Illinois, gather for a good old-fashioned cross burning. After starting an hour late, they went to plant their cross only to find that it was too heavy to move. It took the white-robed merrymakers three hours to chop the cross down to a portable size. Then they planted it, only to find it would not light. Finally they gave up and went home.

July 11. 1812: US invades Canada along the Detroit frontier, helping establish what would become a long tradition of invading foreign countries. 1892: Striking coal miners in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, dynamite the Frisco Mill, including Pinkerton barracks, leaving it in ruins. 1995: Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel peace laureate, released from six years' house arrest, Burma. It won't last long.

July 12. 1450: Jack Cade, leader of rebellion of workers, executed and his head left on London Bridge.

July 13. 1637: Pequot War, which began when colonists attacked and murdered 500 Pequot Indians, ends with the massacre of the tribe near Fairfield, Connecticut.

July 14. 2001: Fifteen demonstrators and two journalists are arrested at Vandenburg AFB, California, after their trespassing delayed a test for National Missile Defense (Star Wars) technology by 40 minutes. The group is hit with unprecedented felony charges that carried possible sentences of six years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

July 15. 1921: In Aberdeen, Wash., a businessman mob drives 103 IWW members out of town. 1958: Fourteen thousand US Marines, armed with nuclear-tipped rockets, land in Lebanon to protect elected pro-Western government officials there from a threatened overthrow. 1978: The Longest Walk, transcontinental walk for Native American justice, arrives in Washington DC from Alcatraz Island, Calif., with 30,000 marchers.

July 17. 1927: First aerial military bombing of a civilian population, by a US Marine squadron of seven airplanes at Ocatal, Nicaragua, kills 300.

July 18. 1918: Birth of Nelson Mandela, father of South Africa. 2004: Hundreds of ADAPT activists blockade downtown traffic to protest funding cutbacks for disability access at National Governors Association conference in Seattle.

July 19. 1692: Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft. 1848: First Women's Rights Convention in US at Seneca Falls, New York; "Declaration of Sentiments" launches modern women's rights movement.

July 20. 2001: 23-year-old Carlo Giuliani is shot and killed by paramilitary police, and hundreds of others are seriously wounded in unprovoked police attacks, during demonstrations at the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy. Over 150,000 gathered for three days to protest the heads of state of the eight leading industrialized nations.

July 21. 1983: In Sao Paulo, Brazil, 800,000 take part in general strike against austerity measures.

July 22. 1863: Kit Carson begins his campaign of extermination against the Navajo. 1877: General strike in St. Louis, part of railroad strike that paralyzed the country. Workers briefly seized control of the city.