Sep. 25. 1975: US Senate makes public 238 illegal FBI burglaries against dissident groups. These actions become known as COINTELPRO, an acronym for counter-intelligence programs.

Sep. 26. 1680: Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal. 1786: Shay's Rebellion begins, Springfield Armory, MA, against the authority of the central government newly installed.

Sep. 27. 1944: The first large-scale plutonium producing reactor begins operation on land seized from the Yakama Indian Nation, Hanford, Wash. 1954: US Senate committee calls for censure of Joe McCarthy.

Sep. 28. 1785: Birth of David Walker, abolitionist who wrote the famous, "Walker's Appeal," Wilmington, NC. 1981: Director and assistant of research lab in Maryland convicted on 15 counts of cruelty to animals.

Sep. 29. 1921: The Cheka (Bolshevik Secret Police) execute anarchists Fanya Baron and Lev Cherny. Emma Goldman was so outraged that friends had to dissuade her from chaining herself to a bench in the hall where the Third International was meeting. 2001: An estimated 20,000 rally in Washington, DC, against the prospect of military strikes as part of Pres. Bush's new "War on Terrorism." Smaller rallies and marches are held around the country.

Sep. 30. 1765: Mexican Independence fighter Jose Maria Morelos born, Valladolid. 1885: Knights of Labor win on Wabash Railroad.

Oct. 1. 1964: UC Berkeley math grad student Jack Weinberg is arrested for setting up CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) information table in Sproul Plaza, inadvertently starting the Free Speech Movement as students surround a police car for 32 hours.

Oct. 2. 1869: Mohandas Gandhi born, India. 1934: American Federation of Labor takes official stand in support of the six hour day, five day work week.

Oct. 3. 1925: Birth of Gore Vidal, gay author/actor/activist, West Point, New York. 1968: Univ. of Washington ROTC building torched by anti-war protesters in Seattle.

Oct. 4. 1855: Kamiakan, chief of the Yakama, defeats forces under Major Haller; first engagement of Yakama War. 1985: Funding for the Experimental Head Injury Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is indefinitely suspended when the cruel animal usage is revealed.

Oct. 5. 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man. 1969: In an embarrassing breach of the United States' air defense capability, a Cuban defector enters US air space undetected. He lands his Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base near Miami, FL, where the presidential aircraft Air Force One is waiting to return Pres. Nixon to Washington.

Oct. 6. 1969: Weathermen blow up statue in Chicago commemorating police involved in the Haymarket bombings which resulted in the execution of innocent anarchists. It will be replaced and blown up again. 1986: Abram Hill dies, New York City. Founder of the American Negro Theatre (1940), where the careers of Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier are launched.

Oct. 7. 1989: "Housing Now!" march draws 200,000 in Washington, DC. 2001: US begins bombing of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and capture Osama bin Laden. One year later: where's Osama?

Oct. 8. 1967: Revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara, age 39, is captured and summarily executed in Bolivian Highlands (by troops trained in US).