June 16. 1918: Eugene Debs delivers anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, for which he is arrested 10 days later, and eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison. 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.

June 18. 1999: Simultaneous anti-globalization protests around the world; includes "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration in Eugene, OR, which turns into a media-hyped "riot" in which 200 or so anarchists confront police and cause minor property damage, an incident which helps inspire local anarcho-primitivists to plan property damage later that year at WTO demonstrations in Seattle.

June 19. 1982: One thousand landowners occupy key islands in protest against French nuclear tests, Kwajalein Atoll, South Pacific.

June 20. 1782: The United States chooses the Eagle as its symbol. A pig was proposed and seriously considered. 1927: Charlotte Whitney pardoned after serving seven years in California prisons for "criminal syndicalism."

June 21. 1960: Nobel laureate Linus Pauling defies Congress by refusing to name signers of petitions calling for total halt of nuclear weapons testing. Pauling later wins a second Nobel: a Peace Prize for his work championing nuclear disarmament. 1997: 100,000 march in solidarity with striking newspaper workers in Detroit.

June 22. 1987: Ten thousand protesters form 10-mile-long human chain around US airbase, Okinawa.

June 23. 1970: On the 11th day of protests against a new US-Japan defense treaty, more than 750,000 Japanese take to the streets in numerous cities. 1972: Life magazine publishes photos of South Vietnamese children running from napalm.

June 24. 1647: Margaret Brent urges women's vote before Maryland Assembly. She is ejected.

June 25. 1978: In response to the passage of an anti-gay ordinance in Miami, 240,000 people march in San Francisco in the first large-scale version of that city's annual Gay Freedom Day Parade.

June 26. 1975: FBI-initiated shootout at Oglala, SD, kills two FBI agents and Lakota activist Joe Stuntz. Two American Indian Movement leaders are prosecuted for the FBI deaths and found innocent by reason of self-defense; a third, Leonard Peltier, is later tried and convicted on testimony that has since been recanted. Peltier remains in prison to this day.

June 27. 1918: Physician Marie Eui (anarchist, IWW officer and "out" lesbian) arrested for anti-war speech, Portland, OR. 1995: Two Operation Homestead activists are arrested in downtown Seattle for occupying the rooftop of a low-income housing building, the Payne Apartments, slated for demolition to make way for a parking lot. They are later acquitted of charges.

June 28. 1969: Stonewall Rebellion in New York City--a riot of drag queens enraged by yet another evening of casual police brutality--marks birth of modern gay rights movement in US.

June 29. 1895: Seven thousand Doukhobors stage mass weapons-burning, Trans-Caucasia, Russian Empire. 1963: Mass "walk-on" (trespass) at chemical and biological warfare facility, Porton Down, UK.