June 14. 1905: Battleship Potemkin mutiny. 1928: Ernesto "Che" Guevara born, Cuba. 1945: U.S. Supreme Court rules compulsory flag saluting by schoolchildren to be illegal.

June 15. 1943: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded in Chicago. 1962: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) meeting prepares the "Port Huron Statement," a manifesto which helps inspire much of the 60's student protest movement.

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. 1977: International Indian Treaty Council announces its intention to provide Soviet Union with a list of U.S. human rights abuses against its indigenous peoples.

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. 1983: Women's peace camp established at Bangor nuclear submarine base in Kitsap County.

June 19. 1953: Black community begins bus boycott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, two and a half years before the more famous Montgomery, Alabama protest. 1982: 1,000 landowners occupy key islands in protest against French nuclear tests, Kwajalein Atoll, South Pacific.

June 20. 1892: American Railway Union (ARU) organized. 1967: Boxing champion Muhammed Ali--who, three years after his conversion to Islam, white media still insist on calling Cassius Clay--is convicted of refusing draft. Ali is stripped of his boxing titles.

June 21. 1877: On "Pennsylvania's Day With the Rope," eleven "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, with over 1,300 arrested. 1987: 10,000 protesters form 10 mile long human chain around U.S. airbase, Okinawa.

June 23. 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.

June 24. 1969: Blacks riot in Omaha, Nebraska. 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. 1938: Fair Labor Standards Act passed.

June 26. 1894: Beginning of Pullman Railroad Strike, largest industrial strike to date in U.S. history, eventually broken by federal government troops. At least two dozen strikers are killed, and Pres. Cleveland suspends the constitutional right to assembly (the ability of any two or more people to meet in public) in seven states.

June 27. 1905: Industrial Workers of the World, radical union, founded in Chicago. 1986: World Court rules U.S. support for Nicaraguan "contras" violates international law.