June 8. 65: Jewish rebels capture fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem. Beginning of the Jewish rebellion against Rome. 1937: American Medical Association recognizes right to birth control.

June 9. 1863: Nez Perce reservation in Idaho reduced to one tenth its original size to accommodate white settlers and railroads. 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. 1998: Mexican Army tries to invade San Juan de la Libertad, Chiapas, but Zapatista rebels force a retreat.

June 11. 1982: Ninety million signatures for disarmament presented to United Nations, New York.

June 12. 1917: 260 people die in a mine disaster in Butte, MT, sparking a strike of 14,000 people against unsafe conditions. 1985: 1,756 people arrested in 150 cities over two days for protests against US arming and financing of Nicaraguan Contras.

June 13. 1971: First installment of "The Pentagon Papers" published by the New York Times. 1992: Law enforcement officials in Texas call for a ban on Ice-T's "Cop Killer" LP. Sales double on the West Coast and in Texas.

June 14. 1971: Fifty 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. 1963: Rev. Mance Jackson leads 1,000 from Mt. Zion Baptist Church to Westlake Mall in Seattle's first civil rights march.

June 16. 1976: Soweto Massacre, South Africa. 700 black children killed while protesting requirement to learn Afrikaans language in their schools. 1986: Despite arrests, millions participate in South African black trade union strike on 10th anniversary of Soweto uprising.

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 the entire election costs.

June 18. 1990: "Redwood Summer" protests begin with IWW blockade of lumber exports, Sonoma, CA.

June 19. 1754: Benjamin Franklin introduces Albany Plan of Union, based on the Iroquois Confederacy. Plan was rejected, but its essential elements adopted 25 years later as the US Constitution. 1953: Black community begins bus boycott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, two and a half years before the more famous Montgomery, Alabama protest.

June 20. 1892: American Railway Union (ARU), founded by Eugene Debs, first organized. 1943: Striking African American auto workers attacked by National Workers League, KKK, and armed white workers at Detroit's Bell Isle amusement park. In the ensuing riots, 34 people killed, over 1,300 arrested.

June 21. 1802: First law limiting work hours for children in England; limited to only 12 hours per day. 1960: Nobel laureate in chemistry 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.