June 4. 1997: As culmination of marches from around the state, activists protest US company Enron building a power station in the South Maharashtra region of India. 39 arrested.

June 5. 1967: 40 Chicanos stage armed raid on Tierra Armarilla, New Mexico. The group claimed 2,500 square miles of territory in New Mexico, which they said Spain granted to their ancestors. Two policemen were wounded, and 11 prisoners at the County Court House were "liberated."

June 6. 1989: Greenpeace officials announce 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, the group found over 2,000 major peacetime naval accidents had occurred since 1945, resulting in some 2,800 deaths. Accidents ranged from loss of an entire vessel and crew to minor collisions and fires that left little damage and some injuries.

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

June 8. 65: Jewish rebels capture fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem. Beginning of the Jewish rebellion against Rome. 1990: US 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. 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. 1692: Bridget Bishop is the first person hanged, during the ordeal known to history as the "Salem Witch Trials," Massachusetts. 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 US.

June 11. 1913: Cops shoot at black and white IWW/AFL maritime workers striking against United Fruit company in New Orleans, killing one, wounding two. 1963: Gov. George Wallace tries to prevent desegregation by blocking entrance of two black students to University of Alabama.

June 12. 1985: 1,756 people arrested in 150 cities over 2 days for protests against US arming and financing of Nicaraguan Contras.

June 13. 1988: Palestinian nonviolent activist Mubarek Awad deported from Israel. He later settles in Washington, DC and founds Nonviolence International.

June 14. 1945: US Supreme Court rules compulsory flag saluting by schoolchildren to be illegal. 1954: The Pledge of Allegiance is officially amended to include the phrase "under God." 1982: 1,653 arrested at US, USSR, French, and Chinese Missions to United Nations in "Blockade the Bombmakers" nuclear disarmament sit-ins.

June 15. 1982: 450 occupy uranium mine for 3 days in anti-nuclear protest, Honeymoon, South Australia.

June 16. 1976: Soweto Massacre, South Africa. 700 black children killed while protesting requirement to learn Afrikaans language in their schools. 1980: US Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs can be patented.

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.