Sep. 11. 1973: CIA overthrows democratically elected government of Chile, assassinating President Salvador Allende and many others. 16 years of repressive military rule under General Augusto Pinochet follows. Striking Chilean labor unions, instrumental in destabilizing the Allende government, were secretly bankrolled by the CIA. 2001: Terrorists hijack four commercial airplanes in Eastern US, manage to successfully fly three of them--two into the World Trade Center's twin towers, destroying them, and a third into the west side of the Pentagon. Thousands killed, democracy--and American sense of invulnerability--wounded.

Sep. 12. 1909: A young man, Emiliano Zapata, is elected to head the town council by villagers of Anenecuneo, Mexico. 1997: 1,111 Zapatistas march to Mexico City.

Sep. 13. 1858: Students at Oberlin College free fugitive slave from slave catchers.

Sep. 14. 1990: Pentagon announces $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabian dictatorship. 2001: About 2,000 gather in New York's Union Square, near the site of a horrific terrorist attack three days earlier, to call for peace, the first such large public rally in the US. Within days, scores of other cities follow suit.

Sep. 15. 1973: Chilean folksinger Victor Jara murdered, four days after the CIA-sponsored overthrow of Salvador Allende. Guards singled out Jara as he continued to sing protest songs inside the detention camp at Santiago Stadium, beat him viciously, and machine-gunned his mutilated body in front of the other prisoners. The US-backed military dictatorship banned Jara's music, image, and name, and, for a time, even outlawed the public performance of the evocative folk-guitar.

Sep. 16. 1910: Mexican revolution ends US-supported dictatorship of Portolio Diaz.

Sep. 17. 1896: 700,000 Europeans face down soldiers to strike for $200/month minimum wage.

Sep. 18. 1889: Hull House is opened by Jane Addams and associates with the intention of helping immigrants settle and naturalize in Chicago. 1980: Cuban Cosmonaut Arnoldo Tamayo becomes first Black in space.

Sep. 19. 1973: Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May, New Jersey) goes on the air. 2001: Some 5,000 march in a nighttime procession through Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, mourning the dead of Sept. 11 and calling for a non-military response by the US.

Sep. 20. 1974: Kootenai Nation in northern Idaho declares war on the US government, with the objective of gaining a reservation and tribal housing, roads, and a community center.

Sep. 21. 1976: Former Chilean Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the US Orlando Letelier, and his colleague Ronni Moffitt (a US citizen), are murdered in Washington DC by agents of US-installed Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet. 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, peaceful mass protest: a refusal to pay taxes to the occupying Israeli government.

Sep. 22. 1980: After 10 months of skirmishes, Iran-Iraq war starts, halting 60% of world's oil traffic.

Sep. 23. 1973: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, communist cultural hero, and Nobel prize winner, dies in Santiago.

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