March 30

General strike in Palestine

WCH: On 30 March 1976, a general strike and mass protests were launched in Palestine and by Palestinian citizens of Israel in protest at the Israeli government seizing large amounts of land owned by …

Birthday of Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Wikipedia: "He joined the NAACP youth group when he was 12 and participated in the sit-in protests that helped end racial segregation in Chattanooga. He was drafted during the Vietnam War and served …

Birthday of Yet-si-blue (Janet McCloud)

Native activist and editor of the newsletter Survival News which documented Fish Wars from the Native side. Organizer for the Fish Wars. She cofounded Women of All Red Nations, which did early organi…

Looting of Battleford

Within days of the Métis victory at the Battle of Duck Lake on March 26, 1885. Cree and Nakota (Assiniboine) bands sympathetic to the Métis cause and with grievances of their own began raiding stores…

Battle of Cieneguilla

Apache and Ute forces led by Apache war chief Flechas Rayadas or Striped Arrows lay a successful ambush for US Army dragoons. The battle lasted four hours until US military retreat. With 60 dragoons …