June 24. 1994: After years of refusal, U.S. finally ratifies International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

June 25. 1876: Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe defeat Gen. Custer's troops at Little Big Horn, Montana. Today, the parking lot at the battlefield monument--surrounded by the Crow Indian Reservation--is crowded with Winnebagos, Pontiacs, and Jeep Cherokees. Who won? 1969: Canada's Minister of Indian Affairs, Jean Cretien, announces a government plan to end the legal status of Canada's native peoples. This endorsement of cultural genocide so cripples his political career that he is now Canada's Prime Ministe r.

June 26. 1894: Mohandas Gandhi founds movement for Indian rights, South Africa. 1894: Beginning of Pullman Railroad Strike, largest industrial strike to date in U.S. history, eventually broken by federal troops. At least two dozen strikers were killed; Pr es. Grover Cleveland suspended the constitutional right to freedom of assembly (the right of any two or more people to meet in public) in seven states. 1993: U.S. fires 23 cruise missiles on intelligence compound in Baghdad, Iraq.

June 27. 1869: Birth of Emma Goldman, anarchist, feminist, and anti-militarist, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1905: Industrial Workers of the World, radical union, founded in Chicago. 1986: World Court rules U.S. support for Nicaraguan "contras" violates intern ational law.

June 28. 1969: Stonewall Rebellion in New York City--a riot of drag queens enraged by yet another evening of casual police brutality--marks birth of modern gay rights movement in U.S.

June 29. 1917: W.E.B. DuBois leads silent march by blacks against lynching, New York City.

June 30. 1969: Seattle City Council approves a plan to purchase Kiker Island, off Deception Pass (Whidbey Island), as a site for a future city-owned nuclear power plant.