Sep. 16. 1910: Mexican revolution ends U.S.-supported dictatorship of Portolio Diaz. 1963: Beginning of five-day strike at Folsom state prison, California. 1982: Massacre of over 1,000 civilian Palestinian refugees begins, Sabnra and Shatila camps, Lebanon. 1991: Philippine Senate defeats treaty allowing continued operation of U.S. military bases in the Philippines.

Sep. 17. 1858: Col. Wright dictates terms of surrender to Indians at Coeur d'Alene mission; 24 chiefs of Yakama, Cayuse, Wallawalla, Palouse and Spokane tribes are shot or hanged. 1938: Washington state CIO formed. 1939: USSR invades Poland. 1961: 1314 arrested in anti-bomb sit-down, Trafalgar Square, London.

Sep. 18. 1838: Under forced removal order of Indiana Governor J. Tipton, Potawatomi are delivered to the ironically named "Immigrant Agency. 1975: Eighteen months after her abduction, San Francisco police "rescue" kidnapped heiress-turned-revolutionary Patty Hearst, killing most of her Symbionese Liberation Army comrades in the process. 1987: Pope John Paul II, whose authority rests solely on 2,000 years of Christian tradition, speaks to Native American leaders in Phoenix, Arizona, urging them to forget the past. 1988: Another in a series of U.S.-supported post-Duvalier military coups. Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Sep. 19. 1865: Chinese coal miners driven out of Black Diamond, Wash. 1913: Birth of Seattle native, actress, activist and lobotomy victim Frances Farmer. 1931: Japan invades Chinese province of Manchuria. 1957: First underground nuclear test, at Nevada Test Site. 1994: U.S. troops land, again, in Haiti.

Sep. 20. 1878: Birth of Upton Sinclair, novelist and socialist. 1932: Rabindranath Tagore urges resistance to practice of "untouchability," British India. 1974: Kootenai Nation in northern Idaho declares war on the U.S. government, with the objective of gaining a reservation and tribal housing, roads, and a community center. 1992: Kurdish writer Musa Anter is assassinated by a Turkish death squad. 1997: 3,000 German protesters help to rip up the railroad tracks leading from Krummel nuclear power station to the main Hamburg-Berlin line.

Sep. 21. 1948: Folke Bernadotte, U.N. mediator, assassinated by Jewish paramilitaries (aka "terrorists"), Palestine. 1963: War Resisters League organizes first anti-Vietnam War demonstration in U.S., New York City. 1976: Former Chilean Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the U.S. Orlando Letelier, and his colleague Ronni Moffitt, a U.S. citizen, are murdered in Washington D.C. by agents of U.S.-installed Chilean President Augusto Pinochet. 1989: Israeli soldiers begin a 42-day occupation and house-to-house destruction of the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, in retaliation for its mass two-year refusal to pay taxes to the occupying Israeli government.

Sep. 22. 1857: Anita Augsburg, feminist pacifist, born, Germany. 1861: In an unprovoked peacetime attack, U.S. Army soldiers massacre visiting Navajo men, women and children during a horse race at Fort Wingate, New Mexico.