Sep. 27. 1990: Last U.S. Pershing II missiles removed from Germany, less than ten years after their installation provoked a massive anti-nuclear movement across Europe.

Sep. 28. 1917: 165 Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World union members) indicted for protesting World War I. The first move in an illegal but successful U.S. government campaign to cripple the radical union movement. 1943: Danish underground anti-Nazi activists begin systematic smuggling of Jews to Sweden.

Sep. 29. 1795: Perpetual Peace published by Immanuel Kant, Germany. 1969: 2,000 welfare protesters take over the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sep. 30. 1991: CIA finances military coup in Haiti, overthrowing the democratically elected government of Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Three years of state-sponsored murder, rape and theft follow.

Oct. 1. 1962: After deployment of 12,000 federal troops to quell segregationist violence, James Meredith becomes first black student at Univ. of Mississippi. 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. 1990: 30 protesters delay old-growth tree cutting on sacred Mount Graham, Arizona; seven arrested.

Oct. 3. 1922: Rebecca L. Felton is appointed the first woman U.S. Senator. 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. 1982: Ben Sasway becomes first public draft non-registrant imprisoned for failure to register. Madison, Wisconsin.

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. 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. 1845: First co-op store in U.S. opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

Oct. 7. 1984: 20,000 march against Marcos dictatorship, Manila, Philippines. 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. 1990: U.S. begins reparations payments to survivors and families of Japanese-Americans taken from their homes and put into internment camps during World War II.