June 5. 1899: Birth of radical Spanish poet and playwright Garcia Lorca. 1991: Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church.

June 6. 1989: Greenpeace announces at least 50 nuclear weapons and 9 nuclear reactors, the products of US and Soviet naval accidents, were lost on the ocean floor since World War II. Using data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Greenpeace and the Institute for Policy Studies found over 2,000 major peacetime naval accidents had occurred since 1945, resulting in some 2,800 deaths.

June 7. 1988: Palestinian Liberation Organization announces its willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist.

June 8. 1904: Battle between the Colorado Militia and striking miners at Dunnville ended with six union members dead and 15 taken prisoner. 79 of the strikers were deported to Kansas two days later. 1990: US citizen Michael Devine kidnapped and murdered by CIA-paid Guatemalan military officers led by ex-School of the Americas two-time graduate Col. Julio Alpirez.

June 9. 1954: Commie-hunting momentum of US Sen. Joseph McCarthy is derailed by a simple question from witness Joseph Welch: "Have you no decency, sir?"

June 10. 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. 1997: Former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt released from prison after being jailed 27 years on trumped up FBI murder charge.

June 11. 1913: Cops shoot Black and White IWW/AFL maritime workers striking against United Fruit company in New Orleans, killing one, wounding two. 1994: Prairie Peace Park and Maze opens at Interstate 80 exit of Pleasant Dale, Nebraska.

June 12. 1917: 260 people die in a mine disaster in Butte, MT, sparking a strike of 14,000 people against unsafe conditions. 1963: NAACP leader Medgar Evars assassinated, Jackson, MS. His murderer is not convicted until 1994.

June 13. 1381: Wat Tyler revolt: Jack Straw and 30,000 peasants and poor city folk rebel against the poll tax and march on London. 1988: Palestinian nonviolent activist Mubarek Awad deported from Israel. He later settles in Washington, DC and founds Nonviolence International.

June 14. 1971: 50 activists, including future American Indian Movement leader John Trudell, occupy deserted missile site near Richmond, CA.

June 15. 1911: Dutch government adopts anti-gay law, provoking establishment of Dutch chapter of German gay rights group Scientific Humanitarian Committee. 1970: US Supreme Court rules that conscientious objectors need not base their moral beliefs on an organized religion.

June 16. 1976: Soweto Massacre, South Africa. 700 black children killed while protesting requirement to learn Afrikaans language in their schools.

June 17. 1997: Washington state voters narrowly approve public financing of a new football stadium for billionaire Paul Allen, in the first US election ever directly financed by an individual for the direct financial benefit of that individual; Allen paid the state for election costs.

June 18. 1928: Birth of Chicano leader Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales. Denver, CO. 1952: US denounces Soviet suggestion that it ratify the 1925 Geneva Protocol against bacteriological warfare.