June 9, 1623: English negotiate treaty with Potomac River tribes; after a toast symbolizing eternal friendship, Chiskiack chief and 200 followers drop dead from poisoned wine.

June 10. 1904: 79 striking Colorado miners "deported" to Kansas. 1975: Release of Rockefeller Commission report detailing a secret CIA-sponsored domestic program, CHAOS, that monitored over 300,000 anti-war dissidents and organizations in the United States. 1990: 50,000 attend first March for the Animals in Washington, D.C.

June 12. 1963: NAACP leader Medgar Evans assassinated, Jackson, Mississippi. 1967: U.S. Supreme Court overturns a Virginia law banning interracial marriage. 1982: A crowd as large as two million rallies in New York's Central Park to support nuclear disarmament. A parallel rally at Peace Arch Park, on the British Columbia/Washington border, draws 50,000. 1985: 1,756 people arrested in 150 cities over two days for protests against U.S. arming and financing of Nicaraguan Contras. 1986: South African government declares state of emergency, begins jailing 20,000.

June 13. 1868: Ex-slave Oscar Dunn becomes Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. 1966: U.S. Supreme Court hands down the now-eviscerated Miranda decision. 1993: U.S. "peacekeeper" shoots 14 unarmed demonstrators, Mogadishu, Somalia. 1996: Four women block a convention center gate and are arrested at a protest of the SUBCON VIII arms trade exhibition in Toronto, Canada.

June 14 1928: Ernesto "Che" Guevara born, Cuba. 1954: The Pledge of Allegiance is officially amended to include the phrase "under god" between "one nation" and "indivisible." 1982: 1,653 arrested at U.S., USSR, French and Chinese Missions to United Nations, New York City, in "Blockade the Bombmakers" nuclear disarmament sit-ins.

June 15. 1898: U.S. Congress passes Newland's Resolution to annex Hawai'i. 1943: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded in Chicago. 1950: U.S. Senate opens investigation of 3,500 alleged "sex perverts" in the federal government. 1950: General strike against apartheid in South Africa. 1963: Rev. Mance Jackson leads 1,000 from Mt. Zion Baptist Church to Westlake Mall in Seattle's first civil rights march.