Sep. 14, 1918: Eugene Debs imprisoned for opposing US entry into World War I, violating the Espionage Act. Sentenced to 10 years. 1940: First peacetime draft in the US was initiated.

Sep. 15, 1394: Charles VI, King of France, expels the Jews from France. 1620: Pilgrims set off from Plymouth, England, aiming for the British colony in Virginia. Their errant course proved disastrous for New England's natives. 2001: Four days after 9-11, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) casts the only Congressional vote opposing the granting of unlimited military power to Pres. Bush.

Sep. 16, 1974: Pres. Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters.

Sep. 17, 1796: George Washington's farewell address, in which he declined to run for a third term as president. He strongly warned against permanent alliances with foreign powers, large public debts, large military establishment and devices of any "small, artful, enterprising minority" to control or change the government.

Sep. 18, 1975: George Jackson Brigade bombs a Seattle Safeway store in solidarity with the grape boycott. 1987: Pope John Paul II, whose authority rests solely on 2,000 years of Christian tradition, speaks to Native American leaders in Phoenix, Arizona, urging them to forget the past.

Sep. 19, 1913: Birth of Seattle native, actress, activist and lobotomy victim Frances Farmer. 2001: Some 5,000 march in a night-time 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, 1906: Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" published.

Sep. 21, 1638: In the final act of the Pequot War, English officials and their Native American allies in Connecticut divide the surviving 72 Pequots and enslave them.

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

Sep. 23, 1806: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark return to St. Louis, Missouri, from the first overland journey across North America to the Pacific Coast. 1979: In the largest political protest of the late '70s in the US, six months after Three Mile Island, 200,000 attend rally against nuclear power in Battery Park, New York City.

Sep. 24, 1945: Saigon captured--workers, peasants, and the poor have set up insurrectionary communes in parts of the city. 1981: CIA Director William Casey urges "total exclusion from Freedom of Information Act for intelligence agencies." 1991: American children's anarchist writer, Dr. Seuss, dies.

Sep. 25, 1493: Christopher Columbus' second departure for New World, in search of gold, slaves, and tribute. 1789: Congress passes Bill of Rights, kicking and screaming all the way. 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, 1786: Shay's Rebellion begins, Springfield Armory, Massachusetts. Against the authority of the central government newly installed. 2000: IMF/World Bank meetings in Prague disrupted by thousands of protesters.

Sep. 27, 1954: Too late, US Senate committee calls for censure of Joe McCarthy. 1991: Pres. Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert.