Sep. 17. 1961: 1,314 arrested in anti-bomb sit-down, Trafalgar Square, London.

Sep. 18. 1975: Eighteen months after her abduction, San Francisco police "rescue" heiress-turned-revolutionary Patty Hearst, killing most of her Symbionese Liberation Army comrades in the process.

Sep. 19. 1994: U.S. troops land in Haiti, again.

Sep. 21. 1989: Israeli soldiers begin a 42-day occupation and house-to-house destruction of the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, in retaliation for its mass two-year refusal to pay taxes to the illegally occupying Israeli government.

Sep. 22. 1861: In an unprovoked peacetime attack, U.S. army soldiers massacre a band of visiting Navajo men, women and children. Fort Wingate, New Mexico Territory. 1870: Proclamation of the Republic of Puerto Rico in revolt against Spanish colonial rule: "Gritto de Lares," Lares, Puerto Rico. 1971: American Indian Movement activists attempt to arrest the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C.