September 8th

1883 -- US: Sitting Bull, main chief of the Sioux tribes, delivers a speech to the United States (which was invading and conquering his people’s lands). He delivers the speech in his Sioux language, departing from a speech originally prepared with an army translator. His actual words denounce the US government, settlers and
army, while the listeners thought he was delivering a speech of welcome and praise.

1886 – England: Siegfried Sassoon is born, who will become an antiwar poet speaking out against the horrors of World War I.

1909 -- US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) strikers at the Pressed Steel Car Plant in McKees Rock, Pennsylvania, force management to improve shop conditions, hike wages by 15%, and drop a "pool system."

1941 – Norway: 2000 workers in the shipyards went on strike against diversion of milk, "depriving mothers and babies," to military use by the German soldiers in Finland.

1965 – US: Table grape pickers, the mostly Filipino members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), led by Larry Itliong, went on strike for higher wages in Delano, California.

1966 – US: Star Trek appears on TV for the first time, a show that will go on to use science fiction as an allegory to critique the Cold War, racism, imperialism and more.

1978 – Iran: Massive protests against the rule of the Shah, an unelected dictator installed by the United States. 3,000 unarmed demonstrators are killed by the Shah's troops.

1994 -- Germany: Festivities mark departure of US and NATO soldiers from Berlin.