Sep. 30. 1986: Mordechai Vanunu kidnapped by Israeli secret police in Rome. Vanunu, who leaked details of Israel's secret nuclear weapons program to the London Times, was convicted in a secret Israeli military court and held in solitary confinement in Israeli prisons for the next 10 years.

Oct. 1. 1946: Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal rejects defense of "following orders" for crimes against humanity. 1949: Communist forces under Mao Zedong assume power, declare Peoples' Republic of China. 1964: University of California-Berkeley police attempt to arrest a student passing out literature for the Congress Of Racial Equality, inadvertently starting the Free Speech Movement. 1965: An attempted coup against Indonesian President Sukarno precipitates the state's systematic extermination of more than 400,000 suspected Communists and other leftists. 1997: 100,000 demonstrate in Pristina, capital of Kosovo (currently occupied by Serbia), for civil rights for the majority ethnic Albanian population.

Oct. 2. 1800: Birth of Nat Turner, leader of Virginia slave rebellion. 1869: Mohandas Gandhi born, India. 1934: American Federation of Labor takes official stand in support of the six hour day, five day work week. 1947: Birth of Ward Churchill, radical Native American author and activist.

Oct. 3. 1922: Rebecca L. Felton is appointed the first woman U.S. Senator. It does not become a trend. 1945: Seven-state Greyhound bus strike. 1961: San Francisco to Moscow Walk For Peace reaches Moscow's Red Square.

Oct. 4. 1855: Kamiakan, chief of the Yakama, defeats forces under Major Haller; first engagement of Yakama War. 1957: Soviet Union launches world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik. 1966: Major accident at Enrico Fermi nuclear reactor near Detroit. 1997: Demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and across the country (including Seattle) protest the scheduled launch of the space probe Cassini with a plutonium payload.

Oct. 5. 1877: Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph surrenders his rifle after months in which his starving band eluded pursuing federal troops: "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." At Eagle Creek in Bear Paw Mountains, Montana. 1968: Seattle police kill Black Panther member Welton "Butch" Armstead during an arrest for suspicion of car theft. 1971: Arctic Slope Native Association files suit against Alaska, claiming the 76,000 acre North Slope. 1995: In a protest of proposed Medicare and Medicaid cuts, 31 people are arrested for occupying King County Republican Party headquarters in Seattle. Related demonstrations take place in Bellingham, Tacoma, Everett, and Yakima.

Oct. 6. 1825: Treaty with Makah at Fort Atkinson, Washington. 1845: First co-op store in U.S. opens in Boston, Massachusetts. 1917: Birth of Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi voting rights crusader. 1966: California makes possession and use of LSD a felony. 1970: About 200 bicyclists stage a "bike-in" in downtown Seattle to protest automobiles. 1979: Over 1,000 arrested at Seabrook, New Hampshire, site of construction for a nuclear power plant, in an occupation organized by Clamshell Alliance. 1986: First observance of World Habitat Day.