Sep. 14. 1883: Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger born. 1991: South African government, African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party sign the National Peace Accord, leading to multi-racial elections and the end of South Africa's apartheid system in 1994.

Sep. 15. 1986: Vietnam veterans Duncan Murphy and Brian Willson join Charles Liteky and George Mizo in the Fast For Life, opposing U.S. support of the contra war against Nicaragua.

Sep. 16. 1910: Mexican revolution ends U.S.-supported dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. 1974: A federal judge dismisses all charges against American Indian Movement leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means stemming from the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

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.

Sep. 18. 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.

Sep. 19. 1865: Chinese coal miners driven out of Black Diamond, Wash. 1969: A bomb causes serious damage to the new Federal Office Building in New York City.

Sep. 20. 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.

Sep. 21. 1948: Folke Bernadotte, U.N. mediator, assassinated by Jewish paramilitaries, Palestine. 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.

Sep. 22. 1861: In an unprovoked peacetime attack, U.S. Army soldiers massacre a band of visiting Navajo men, women, and children during a horse race at Fort Wingate, New Mexico. 1971: American Indian Movement activists attempt to arrest the deputy director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C.

Sep. 23. 1870: Proclamation of the Republic of Puerto Rico in revolt against Spanish rule: "Gritto de Lares." Lares, Puerto Rico.

Sep. 24. 1924: Mohandas Gandhi begins 21-day fast for Hindu-Moslem unity, India. 1968: Mexican soldiers open fire on students at the National University in Mexico City, killing 17 and arresting at least 1,000.

Sep. 25. 1925: International convention against forced labor and slavery signed, Geneva, Switzerland.

Sep. 26. 1937: Bessie Smith dies of injuries from an auto accident outside of a Jim Crow hospital in Mississippi.

Sep. 27. 1944: The first large-scale plutonium producing reactor begins operation on land seized from the Yakama Indian Nation, Hanford, Washington. 1983: Five members of Puget Sound Women's Peace Camp enter Boeing's Cruise missile production plant in Seattle, leaflet workers, and are arrested.