June 6. 1778: Debtors prisons abolished in U.S.; later, it would become a requirement of citizenship. 1970: Officials gather at Charleston Air Force Base to celebrate the arrival of the first operational C-5A. As it touched down, the tire on one wheel blew-out, and a second wheel fell off the landing gear and bounced down the runway by itself.

June 7. 1997: Seven activists are arrested outside the pro-nuclear Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, for passing out copies of the Bill of Rights. They were protesting the prior arrest of anti-nuclear activists for leafleting outside the museum.

June 8 1990: U.S. citizen Michael Devine kidnapped and murdered by CIA-paid Guatemalan military officials, led by ex-School of the Americas two-time graduate Col. Julio Alpirez.

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. 1990: 50,000 attend first March for the Animals in Washington, D.C.

June 11. 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts, Philippines, becoming the first act of nature ever to permanently close a U.S. military instillation. 1994: Prairie Peace Park and Maze opens at Interstate 80 exit, Pleasant Dale, Nebraska.

June 12. 1982: A crowd estimated 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.

June 13. 1988: Palestinian nonviolent activist Mubarek Awad deported from Israel. He later settles in Washington, D.C. and founds Nonviolence International. 1993: U.S. "peacekeeper" shoots 14 unarmed demonstrators, Mogadishu, Somalia.

June 14. 1945: U.S. Supreme Court rules compulsory flag saluting by schoolchildren to be illegal. 1971: 50 activists, including future American Indian Movement leader John Trudell, occupy deserted missile site near Richmond, CA.

June 15. 1917: Anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman are arrested and charged with conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for World War I military service. Both were deported from the U.S. after their prison sentences.

June 16. 1972: Women and children encircle Congress demanding an end to Vietnam War, Washington D.C. 1976: Soweto Massacre, South Africa. 700 black children killed while protesting requirement to learn Afrikaans language in their schools.

June 17. 1960: First convention of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), New York City.

June 18. 1812: U.S. declares war on Britain. In response, British Navy invades and sacks new U.S. capital at Washington, D.C. 1983: Women's peace camp established at Bangor nuclear submarine base in Kitsap County, WA.

June 19. 1865: Slaves declared free in state of Texas. Celebrated each year in Texas, mostly by people of color, as the holiday "Juneteenth." 1953: Black community begins bus boycott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, two and a half years before the more famous Montgomery, Alabama protest.