Feb. 7. 1886: Federal troops are called in to restore order after more than 400 ethnic Chinese are driven from their homes in Seattle, Washington Territory.

Feb. 8. 1963: Military coup in Iraq topples regime of Abdel Karim Kassem.

Feb. 9. 1886: Pres. Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence. 1971: Protests led by the Oriental Student Union briefly close Seattle Central Community College. 2002: Ten thousand march in Tel Aviv, Israel, against the Sharon government's increasingly brutal attacks on Palestinian civilians.

Feb. 10. 1896: Home Colony Co-Operative founded on Van Geldern Cove near Seattle and Tacoma, Wash. 1971: National protests against US invasion of Laos include 1,500 protesters and nine arrests at the University of Washington.

Feb. 11. 1812: At Republican Gov. Elbridge Gerry's behest, Massachusetts is redistricted to give Republicans advantage in the election of state legislators. One grotesquely shaped new district, described as looking like a salamander, resulted in the coining of the word gerrymander. 1919: Seattle general strike ends.

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 in Washington, D.C. and at the Labor Temple in New York City, in protest of a proposed universal conscription law. First draft card burning in US.

Feb. 13. 1837: Flour riot in New York City--early US riot of the poor against property inequity. Six thousand New Yorkers assault local flour merchants who, they claim, are hoarding flour in order to drive up the price.

Feb. 14. 1817: Birth as a slave of Frederick Douglass, black abolitionist and founder of the influential North Star newspaper in Rochester, New York. "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will."

Feb. 15. 1966: Nisqually tribe engages in protest "fish-in" to demand treaty fishing rights.

Feb. 16. 1933: Germany: Arbeiter-Echo (Worker Echo), the unofficial organ of the German AnarchosyndikalistInnen published by the FAUD in Dresden, is banned by the Nazis. 1936: Spain: Election and formation of the Popular Front government against the fascist Franco. Anarchists, socialists, communists, republicans, and labor groups join together for a republic.

Feb. 17. 1970: Seventy-six are arrested and 20 injured in a downtown confrontation between Seattle police and an antiwar demonstration organized by the Seattle Liberation Front.

Feb. 18. 1688: Pennsylvania Quakers make first formal protest against slavery.

Feb. 19. 1858: Leschi, chief of the Nisqually and Yakama, is hanged for leading attack on Seattle. 1996: Ten thousand gather at the state capitol in Olympia, Wash., in a "Rally for Working Families" opposing cuts in social programs. 1997: Twelve hundred rally in support of striking musicians' union, forcing cancellation of opening night Disney production of "Beauty and the Beast" at 5th Ave. Theater in Seattle.

Feb. 20. 1954: Birth of Patty "Tanya" Hearst. Doctors at the time failed in their attempt to surgically remove the enormous silver spoon inserted in her mouth; it was up to Cinque to do the job.