July 29. 1920: "No more war" demonstrations by disabled veterans, Germany. 1923: "No more war" demonstrations held in 23 countries. 1968: Riots rock Seattle's Central Area after a police raid on the local Black Panther Party headquarters. Seattle BPP leader Aaron Dixon is arrested for possession of a stolen typewriter. (He is later acquitted.) 69 people are arrested in riots over the following three days.

Aug. 1. 1758: First Indian Reservation in North America established by New Jersey Colonial Assembly. 1920: Gandhi begins Indian non-cooperation movement. (Different Indians.) 1982: Blockade of nuclear missile site begins, Grossenstringen, West Germany.

Aug. 2. 320: Yat-Balam founds dynasty that rules Yaxchilan (Mayan Empire) throughout its 500-year recorded history. 1924: Birth of radical black gay author and playwright, James Baldwin. 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait, after discussing plans with U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie.

Aug. 3. 1913: Four die in the so-called "Wheatland riots," when police fire into a crowd of California farmworkers trying to organize for better working conditions. Two labor leaders, one not even present on the day, are later convicted of murder for encouraging workers to organize, which, by the legal logic of the day, forced police to shoot them. 1966: Comedian Lenny Bruce dies at age 39. 1971: 200 march in Seattle to demand release of federal surplus food supplies to feed the hungry.

Aug. 4. 1964: Bodies of civil rights volunteers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney found near Philadelphia, Mississippi. 1983: Police and soldiers kill participants in bus and school boycott, Ciskei, South Africa. 1985: Peace Ribbon made by thousands of women wrapped around Pentagon. 1987: After assassination of its anti-nuclear President and strong lobbying by the U.S., the Pacific island nation of Belau (a former U.S. protectorate) reverses six previous votes and agrees to eliminate a clause in its constitution prohibiting nuclear weapons.