Aug. 22. 1791: Slave revolt begins Haitian revolution. In 1804, Haiti becomes first free black country in the world. 1972: Police arrest 891 over two days as thousands of anti-war protesters disrupt the Miami Beach convention of Republican Party.

Aug. 23. 1927: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchist political prisoners, executed, Massachusetts. 1989: Over one million join hands across three Baltic States in 400-mile-long chain of resistance to USSR.

Aug. 24. 1967: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin throw 300 one-dollar bills from balcony onto floor of New York Stock Exchange, creating instant bedlam. 1970: UFW lettuce strike begins.

Aug. 25. 1689: 1,200 Iroquois warriors attack Montreal. 1967: FBI circulates memo detailing plans to "disrupt" Black Liberation groups. Results in infamous "COINTELPRO" program.

Aug. 26. 1920: Ratification of 19th Amendment in U.S., extending right to vote to women. 1971: 6,000 turn out for a National Organization for Women-organized march in New York City for equal rights, with the demand "51 percent of everything."

Aug. 27. 1892: International Peace Bureau established, Rome, Italy. 1949: Anti-communist mob breaks up Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, N.Y.

Aug. 28. 1955: Emmett Till, a Detroit teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, is tortured and killed for allegedly talking to a white woman in an "improper" way. 1963: Martin Luther King delivers "I Have A Dream" speech at March On Washington for Jobs, Peace and Freedom. 250,000 attend.

Aug. 29. 1758: First Indian reservation established. 1991: Women call on women worldwide for peace. European Peace Caravan, Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Aug. 30. 1964: Democratic Party convention refuses to seat black protest delegation in place of all-white delegation from state of Mississippi. Outside, 200 protesters rally to oppose Vietnam War. Atlantic City, NJ.

Aug. 31. 1895: First issue of Julius Wyland's Kansas-based socialist newspaper, An Appeal to Reason, is published. 1962: 20,000 call for general strike in the event of civil war, Algeria.

Sep. 1. 1947: 3,000 demonstrate for No More War, Berlin. 1997: Kurdish and British activists blockade an arms trade exhibition outside London. 89 arrested.

Sep. 2. 1921: Mine owners bomb striking West Virginia miners by plane. 1981: U.N. Human Rights Commission rules that Canada's Indian Act violates international human rights.

Sep. 3. 1838: Frederick Douglass, famous African-American abolitionist, escapes from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland to freedom in the north. 1997: Kurdish Peace Train demonstration broken up by Turkish police in Istanbul.

Sep. 4. 1626: First patent in American history, for device to restrain natives, to W. Claiborne, Jamestown, Virginia. 1978: Simultaneous demonstrations against nuclear weapons and power in Red Square, Moscow, and on White House lawn, Washington D.C.

Sep. 5. 1917: In 48 coordinated raids across the country, federal agents seize records and arrest hundreds of IWW (Wobbly) activists for the crime of labor organizing and "obstructing" World War I.

Sep. 6. 1963: Anti-nuclear march from Glasgow, Scotland, arrives in London, and attempts to present a dummy missile to the British Imperial War Museum.

Sep. 7. 1958: First meeting of the New York Daughters of Bilitis, pioneer lesbian organization. 1990: RCMP moves in on First Nations encampment in southern Alberta, ending a month-long native attempt to protect sacred land by diverting the Old Man River around a partially completed dam.

Sep. 8. 1763: Stepan Glotlov lands on Kodiak Island, Alaska, and attempts to persuade natives to pay tribute to Imperial government. They refuse and attack the Russians. 1978: 3,000 unarmed demonstrators killed by Shah's troops, Tehran, Iran.

Sep. 9. 1739: Slave revolt in Stono, South Carolina. 1973: Beginning of five days of riots at Attica State Prison, New York. 43 killed.

Sep. 10. 1897: Nineteen striking miners killed, 40 wounded by sheriff's deputies at Latimer, Penn. 1996: First weekly issue of Eat the State! published in Seattle, Wash.

Sep. 11. 1942: Underground Norwegian trade union newspapers arrange thousands of letters to government rejecting Nazification. 1990: U.S. anthropologist Myma Mack murdered by U.S.-paid Guatemalan military.

Sep. 12. 1932: Unemployed people march on grocery stores and take food, Toledo, Ohio. 1970: Comandos Armados Liberacion bombs U.S. governors convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico.