Aug. 26. 1920: Ratification of 19th Amendment to U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote.

Aug. 27. 1963: W.E.B. DuBois, radical black sociologist and founder of NAACP, dies in Ghana. 1963: March on Washington for Jobs, Peace, and Freedom draws over 250,000.

Aug. 29. 1533: Atahullpa, 13th and last emperor of the Inca Empire in present-day Peru, is put to death by Spanish conquistador Pizarro. 1865: "Battle" of Tongue River, in which Gen. Connor leads troops in dawn attack on a sleeping Arapaho village in Dakota Territory, killing at least 60. 1970: Three die in East Los Angeles when an anti-war rally turns into a riot during Chicano National Moratorium.

Aug. 30. 1942: General strike in response to German "annexation," Luxembourg. 1964: Democratic National Committee, on orders from Lyndon Johnson, refuses to seat black protest delegation in place of all-white delegation from state of Mississippi. Atlantic City, NJ. 1967: U.S. Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first African-American Supreme Court justice.

Aug. 31. 1925: U.S. Marines end eleven-year occupation of Haiti. The military dictatorship they leave in place continues to pillage and murder Haitians for another 60 years, rendering destitute what was once the wealthiest country in the Western Hemisphere. 1980: Solidarity workers' movement founded, Gdansk shipyards, Poland.

Sep. 1. 1983: U.S.S.R. shoots down Korean Air #007 over Sea of Okhtsk, killing 267 civilians. Evidence released years later suggests the U.S. was using the civilian flight for intelligence purposes. 1987: During a nonviolent protest at Concord (Calif.) Naval Weapons Station, a Navy munitions train runs over blockader Brian Willson. Willson loses both legs but has remained an active and articulate leader in Third World solidarity movements. 1996: 16 activists in Stuttgart, Germany arrested at EUROCOM, the U.S. Armed Forces' command for NATO, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, in a protest of NATO expansion into Eastern Europe.