Sep. 10. 1980: Manila, Philippines: 10,000 people defy government order and hold "Freedom March." US-supported Marcos dictatorship government kills eight.

Sep. 11. 1990: US Pres. George Bush claims 120,000 Iraqi troops with 850 tanks are moving south in Kuwait, toward Saudi Arabia. Soviet satellite photos show no troop build-up. 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. 1993: Israel and PLO agree to "limited" self-rule for Palestine.

Sep. 14. 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. 1981: Blockade starts at nuclear power plant construction site, Diablo Canyon, California. Over two weeks, 1,901 are arrested in the largest occupation of a nuclear power site in US history.

Sep. 16. 1910: Mexican revolution ends US-supported dictatorship of Portolio Diaz. 1979: The New York City ghetto music in which performers chant rhymed and rhythmic verses over prerecorded 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. 1896: 700,000 Europeans face down soldiers to strike for $200/month minimum wage.

Sep. 18. 1917: Aldous Huxley, 23, is hired as a schoolmaster at Eton, where he counts among his unruly pupils Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell). 1945: Voline, Russian revolutionary and anarchist historian, dies. He had been arrested on Jan. 14 by military agents of Stalin and dragged from one prison to another.

Sep. 19. 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. 1984: Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut. 1992: Kurdish writer Musa Anter is assassinated by a Turkish death squad.

Sep. 21. 1886: H.G. Wells, author, futurist, and radical socialist, born, Bromley, Kent, England. 1948: Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator, assassinated by Jewish paramilitaries, Palestine.

Sep. 22. 1966: Eight hundred Puerto Rican men pledge to refuse US draft, "part of the colonial subjugation of our country," Lares, Puerto Rico. 1981: West German cops oust squatters. Thousands in several cities fight back.

Sep. 23. 1838: Birth of Victoria Woodhull, feminist and reformer. Proponent of Free Love, first woman to run for US presidency (with Frederick Douglass). Member of the First International until expelled by Karl Marx. Homer, Ohio. 1979: 200,000 attend rally against nuclear power in Battery Park, New York City.