Feb. 2. 1972: In response to the Bloody Sunday killings, an Irish mob torches the British Embassy in Dublin.

Feb. 3. 1690: First paper money issued in America by Anglo colonists to pay soldiers in war against Quebec. 1965: Over 2,600 arrests, many of them schoolchildren, in week-long voter registration demonstrations in Selma, Alabama.

Feb. 4. 1990: Colombian government recognizes native rights to 69,000 square miles (slightly larger than area of state of Washington) in Amazon Basin, home to 55,000 native people.

Feb. 5. 1970: U.S. troops invade Laos. 1991: 49 German troops conscientiously object to going to Turkey for Gulf War.

Feb. 6. 1919: In one of the largest labor demonstrations in U.S. history, the Seattle General Strike takes control of the city of Seattle in support of 32,000 striking longshoremen. 1973: 200 American Indian Movement protesters clash with police for three days in Custer, SD, over murder of Wesley Bad Heart; 37 arrested.

Feb. 7. 1876: War Dept. authorizes Gen. Sheridan to commence operations against "hostile" Lakota, including bands of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. 1965: U.S. Air Force begins saturation bombing of North Vietnam.

Feb. 8. 1517: Hernandez de Cordova sails with three vessels from Cuba to Bahama Islands in search of Indian slaves. 1968: Police kill four and wound 33 as black students protest at a segregated bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Feb. 9. 1971: Protests led by the Oriental Student Union briefly close Seattle Central Community College. 1995: Mexican government cancels peace process; troops invade Chiapas strongholds of Zapatista rebels.

Feb. 10. 1961: Voice of Nuclear Disarmament pirate radio station begins operation off shore of Britain.

Feb. 11. 1937: General Motors workers win 44-day sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan. 1990: Nelson Mandela released after being held 27 years in prison without trial by the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa.

Feb. 12. 1947: Between 400 and 500 veterans and conscientious objectors from World Wars I and II burn their draft cards in two demonstrations, in front of the White House and at the Labor Temple in New York City, in protest of a proposed universal conscription law. First draft card burning in U.S.

Feb. 13. 1692: Massacre of Scots by English army, Glencoe, Scotland. 1945: Over 50,000 killed in Allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany.

Feb. 14. 1997: Last remaining Jahalin Bedoiin families, who had been living in the Abu-Dis area of Palestine for over 40 years, are forcibly removed to make way for new Jewish settlements (illegal under the Oslo accords).

Feb. 15. 1991: U.S. planes bomb civilian shelter, killing at least 500, Baghdad, Iraq. 1997: In "Railway Tracks Action Day," some 15,000 in Wendland, Germany block and dismantle railroad lines scheduled to be used for shipment of nuclear waste.