June 16. 1873: Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting. 1976: Soweto Massacre, South Africa. 700 black children killed while protesting requirement to learn Afrikaans language in their schools.

June 17. 1955: Disneyland opens, Anaheim, Calif. 1997: Wash. state voters narrowly approve public financing of a new football stadium for billionaire Paul Allen.

June 18. 1934: Indian Reorganization Act passed against the virtually unanimous opposition of U.S. Indians, who generally felt they'd already been reorganized enough. 1954: Forces directed and supplied by the CIA overthrow the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Decades of government-sponsored genocide against Guatemalan Indians follow. 1983: Women's peace camp established at Bangor nuclear submarine base in Kitsap County.

June 19. 1754: Benjamin Franklin introduces Albany Plan of Union, based on the Iroquois Confederacy. Plan was rejected, but its essential elements adopted a quarter century later as the U.S. Constitution. 1865: Slaves declared free in state of Texas. Now celebrated by the holiday "Juneteenth." 1938: Bloody Sunday: Vancouver B.C. police battle unemployed at post office. 1953: Black community begins bus boycott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, two and a half years before the more famous Montgomery, Alabama protest. 1988: Haitian civilian government overthrown by U.S.-backed military coup.

June 21. 1877: On "Pennsylvania's Day With the Rope," 11 "Molly Maguire" coal miners are hanged by the state for the crime of attempting to organize workers. 1997: 100,000 march in solidarity with striking newspaper workers in Detroit.

June 22. 1943: Detroit race riots kill 34; over 1,300 arrested. 1970: The right to vote is extended to 18 to 20 year olds by the 26th Amendment. 1987: 10,000 protesters form 10-mile-long human chain around U.S. airbase, Okinawa.

June 23. 1947: U.S. Senate overrides Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. The Act greatly weakened the power of unions in collective bargaining. 1970: On the eleventh day of protests against a new U.S.-Japan defense treaty, more than 750,000 Japanese take to the streets in numerous cities.