Sep. 13. 1971: Pres. Nixon, speaking to chief of staff Bob Haldeman: "Now here's the point, Bob. Please get me the names of the Jews. You know, the big Jewish contributors to the Democrats. Could we please investigate some of the cocksuckers?"

Sep. 14. 1991: South African government, African National Congress, and Inkatha Freedom Party sign the National Peace Accord, leading to multi-racial elections.

Sep. 15. 1963: Four children attending Sunday School are killed and 20 injured in a Ku Klux Klan bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, a turning point in generating broad American sympathy for the civil rights movement. Fifteen sticks of explosive blew apart the church basement and the children in the changing room. A member of the church, studying on a scholarship in Paris at the time, was Angela Davis.

Sep. 16. 1979: The New York City ghetto music in which performers chant rhymed and rhythmic verses over instrumental dance tracks, makes it onto vinyl with the release of the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." Industry warned that rap had no commercial appeal.

Sep. 17. 1179: Hildegard of Bingen, archetypal medieval feminist, dies. 1896: 700,000 Europeans face down soldiers to strike for $200/month minimum wage.

Sep. 18. 1891: Harriet Maxwell Converse (her Indian name was Ga-is-wa-noh--"The Watcher") became the first white woman to be named chief of an Indian tribe, the Six Nations Tribe at Tonawanda Reservation in New York.

Sep. 19. 1974: U.S. intelligence sources reveal that striking Chilean labor unions, which destabilized the Allende government during the bloody 1973 military coup, were secretly bankrolled by the CIA.

Sep. 20. 1945: After the collapse of Nazi Germany, rocket scientist Werner Von Braun arrives in the U.S. under "Operation Paperclip"--a program that was supposed to exclude Nazis, but became a cover for "rehabilitating" them.

Sep. 21. 1948: Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator, assassinated by Jewish paramilitaries, Palestine. 1989: Israeli soldiers begin a 42-day occupation and house-to-house destruction of the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, in retaliation for its two-year refusal to pay taxes to the occupying Israeli government.

Sep. 22. 1981: West German cops oust squatters. Thousands in several cities fight back.

Sep. 23. 1950: Congress overrides President Truman's veto and passes the McCarran Internal Security Act, requiring registration of members of "Communist front" groups and establishment of emergency concentration camps. Truman called the act "the greatest danger to freedom of speech, press, and assembly since the Alien & Sedition Laws of 1798."

Sep. 24. 1918: Labor union, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), declared illegal in Canada.

Sep. 25. 1690: First newspaper published in colonial America. It was never published again. Authorities considered "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick" to be offensive, and ordered the publisher to cease publishing.

Sep. 26. 1937: Bessie Smith dies of injuries from an auto accident outside of a Jim Crow hospital in Mississippi when the ambulance refuses to hurry because she is black. Dies in Clarksville, Miss. One of the nation's greatest blues singers, called "the Empress of the Blues."