Sep. 29. 1994: Protesters crash the Washington, D.C. 50th birthday party of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

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. 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.

Oct. 2. 1800: Birth of Nat Turner, leader of Virginia slave rebellion. 1934: American Federation of Labor takes official stand in support of the six hour day, five day work week.

Oct. 3. 1961: San Francisco to Moscow Walk For Peace reaches Moscow's Red Square. 1990: Formal reunification of Germany.

Oct. 4. 1855: Kamiakan, chief of the Yakama, defeats forces under Major Haller; first engagement of Yakama War.

Oct. 5. 1968: Seattle police kill Black Panther member Welton "Butch" Armstead during an arrest for suspicion of car theft. 1979: 2,000 activists demonstrate against development of uranium mines in Black Hills, South Dakota.

Oct. 6. 1845: First co-op store in U.S. opens in Boston, Massachusetts. 1917: Birth of Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi voting rights crusader. 1970: About 200 bicyclists stage a "bike-in" in downtown Seattle to protest automobiles.

Oct. 7. 1969: Black football players at the Univ. of Wyoming are kicked off the team for protesting against the segregated Brigham Young University. 1989: "Housing Now" march draws 200,000 in Washington, D.C.

Oct. 8. 1967: Revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara is captured and summarily executed in Bolivia. 1976: Pres. Ford signs bill to terminate Indian Claims Commission, ending mechanism for repayment of lands stolen from tribes.

Oct. 9. 1989: 80,000 in a nonviolent march for freedom, Leipzig, East Germany. 1992: Women In Black begin regular vigils against war, Belgrade, Serbia.

Oct. 10. 1967: Treaty demilitarizing outer space comes into force. 1994: For the second year in a row, Denver, Colorado cancels its traditional Columbus Day parade due to fears of confrontations with "radical elements" among the Native American community.

Oct. 11. 1972: Chicano activists occupy the abandoned Beacon Hill School in Seattle, which they propose converting into a Chicano community center: El Centro de la Raza. 1987: Over 750,000 gays, lesbians and bisexuals descend upon Washington, D.C. for a march to demand civil rights. Now celebrated each year as National Coming Out Day.

Oct. 12. 1911: Society of American Indians formed in Columbus, Ohio, beginning of Pan-Indianism. 1958: Reform Jewish Temple in Atlanta is firebombed in retaliation for Jewish support of local black civil rights activists. 1992: Continental Congress of Indigenous Peoples meets in Managua, Nicaragua.