Aug. 30, 1967: US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first black justice on US Supreme Court.

Aug. 31, 1980: "Solidarity" workers movement founded at Lenin Shipyards, Gdansk, Poland.

Sept. 1, 1983: USSR shoots down Korean Air flight 007 over Sea of Okhotsk, killing 267 civilians. Evidence released years later suggests the US may have been using the civilian flight for intelligence purposes.

Sept. 2, 1872: Mikhail Bakunin expelled from Communist International. 1965: Mao Zedong launches "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" in China.

Sept. 3, 1783: Peace treaty signed with Britain, ending Revolutionary War. 1813: "Uncle Sam" image used for the first time, in Troy (NY) Post.

Sep. 4, 1639: US' first prohibition law outlawing the drinking of toasts, passed in Massachusetts. The law was repealed in 1645 as unenforceable. 1839: Cherokee Nation West established after "Trail of Tears" forced relocation.

Sept. 5, 1877: Crazy Horse assassinated at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, at age 33. Bayoneted by a US soldier after allegedly resisting confinement in a jail cell. 1975: Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme, a member of Charles Manson's "family", is caught pointing a handgun at President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California.

Sept. 6, 1522: One of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships, the Victoria, returns to Spain, completing the first successful circumnavigation of the world. Magellan was killed by angry natives in the Philippines.

Sept. 7, 1968: For the first time, feminist protesters interrupt the Miss America beauty pageant in Atlantic City, NJ.

Sept. 8, 1974: President Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes he "committed or may have committed" while President. The act would ultimately cost Ford re-election in 1976.

Sept. 9, 1997: Mexico City police sweep poor neighborhoods, arresting, torturing, and killing six youths.

Sept. 10, 1349: Jews who survived a massacre in Constance, Germany are burned to death. 1913: Lincoln Highway opens as first paved coast-to-coast highway in US. 1996: First weekly issue of "Eat the State!" published in Seattle, Washington.

Sept. 11, 1773: Benjamin Franklin writes, "There never was a good war or bad peace." 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. Nearly 3,000 killed, democracy and American sense of invulnerability badly wounded.

Sept. 12, 1909: A young man, Emiliano Zapata, is elected head of the town council by villagers of Anenecuneo, Mexico. 1977: Student anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko murdered while in police custody, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Sept. 13, 1971: State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt, 42 people die in the assault.