Oct. 25, 1973: John Lennon sues the US government, maintaining that wiretaps and surveillance were employed against him and his lawyer, Leon Wildes. Claims that, as a result, his appeal applications in his fight against deportation were prejudiced by US officials.

Oct. 26, 1936: Hitler opens "Office for Combating Abortion and Homosexuality." 1986: Pres. Ronald Reagan vetoes bill that would impose trade sanctions on apartheid regime of South Africa.

Oct. 27, 1682: Tammany, chief of the Lennilenape Delaware, greets William Penn when he arrives to found the Colony of Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the pacifist Quakers turn out to be just as bloodthirsty toward Indians as all the other colonists. 1969: Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders.

Oct. 28, 1919: US Senate passes the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Act over Pres. Woodrow Wilson's veto.

Oct. 29, 1940: First compulsory US peace-time draft initiated. 1956: Israel attacks Sinai, Egypt. 1986: Three days after Pres. Reagan's veto, and days before an election, US House of Representatives votes to override veto on bill that would impose trade sanctions against South Africa.

Oct. 30, 1916: Industrial Workers of the World union members forced to run gauntlet by some of Everett, Washington's finest citizens.

Oct. 31, 1918: Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in one week. 1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is shot to death by Sikh members of her own security guard while walking in the garden of her New Delhi home. Gandhi's son, Rajiv, was sworn in as Prime Minister.

Nov. 1, 1836: Seminole Indian resistance to forced removal from Florida begins. Led by Osceola, they begin attacks to protest/prevent removal. The unpopular war ended in August 1842, with the Indians force-marched to Oklahoma. 1951: First atomic explosion witnessed by troops (as an experiment), New Mexico.

Nov. 2, 1811: Weavers and knitters smash job-displacing new machines at Sutton and Ashfield, England, as part of the "Luddite" rebellion. 1920: Imprisoned anti-war activist and Socialist Party candidate Eugene Debs receives over one million votes for President.

Nov. 3, 1970: Chilean Pres. Salvador Allende, the country's first democratically elected Marxist, beating the candidate bankrolled by big business, military, and the US/CIA, sworn in as President.

Nov. 4, 1979: Iranian militants seize US Embassy personnel in Tehran. 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is fatally shot minutes after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv's Kings Square in Israel.

Nov. 5, 1605: Gunpowder plot to blow up English Parliament detected. Leader Guy Fawkes and other Catholic conspirators are later hanged for the deed; over the next few months, English authorities also arrested, tortured, or killed dozens of innocent English Catholics. Now celebrated as a national English holiday.

Nov. 6, 1986: Iran-Contra scandal begins to break in US. 1990: Saudi Arabian women protest discriminatory laws.

Nov. 7, 1972: After nine tries, Congress finally passes War Powers legislation, over Pres. Nixon's veto. It limits President's power to commit armed forces to hostilities abroad without Congressional approval. It has been routinely ignored ever since.