June 12. 1963: NAACP leader Medgar Evars assassinated, Jackson, Mississippi. His murderer is not convicted until 1994. 1980: Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan says he will submit to periodic medical tests. Later, doctors find the President's brain is missing, leading pundits to speculate: "Will he run for re-election?"

June 13. 1966: US Supreme Court's now-eviscerated Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights.

June 14. 1928: Ernesto "Che" Guevara born, Rosario, Argentina.

June 15. 1943: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded in Chicago. 1962: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) meeting prepares the "Port Huron Statement," a manifesto which helps inspire much of the 1960s student protest movement.

June 16. 1873: Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting. 1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space.

June 17. 1907: Equality Colony in Washington state closes. 1960: First convention of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), New York City.

June 18. 1921: Eighteen IWW antiwar activists released from Leavenworth federal prison. 1983: Sally Ride becomes first US woman in space. 1983: Women's peace camp established at Bangor nuclear submarine base in Kitsap County.

June 19. 1754: Benjamin Franklin introduces Albany Plan of Union, based on the Iroquois Confederacy. Plan was rejected, but its essential elements were adopted a quarter century later as the US Constitution. 1902: Congress provides for allotments on Spokane reservation, freeing up "surplus" land for sale to white farmers. 1988: Haitian civilian government overthrown by US-backed military coup.

June 20. 1947: Taft-Hartley Labor Act, curbing strikes, is vetoed by President Truman. Congress overrode the veto. 1967: Boxing champion Muhammad Ali--who, three years after his conversion to Islam, white media still insist on calling Cassius Clay--is convicted of refusing draft. Ali is stripped of his boxing titles. The conviction would be overturned by the US Supreme Court four years later.

June 21. 1960: Nobel laureate Linus Pauling defies Congress by refusing to name signers of petitions calling for a total halt of nuclear weapons testing. Pauling later wins a second Nobel: a Peace Prize for his work championing nuclear disarmament. 1989: US Supreme Court rules that it is a constitutionally protected form of free speech to burn the US flag.

June 22. 1977: Former Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell, a law and order hardliner, starts 19 months in Alabama prison.

June 23. 1888: Clallam chief Chitsamakkan buried at Port Townsend, Wash. 1947: Senate overrides Pres. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. The Act greatly weakened the power of US labor unions in collective bargaining.

June 24. 1842: Ambrose Bierce born, Meigs County, Ohio. "Bitter Bierce"--American newspaper columnist, satirist, essayist, short-story writer and novelist--disappeared in the Mexican Revolution. Presumably died in the siege of Ojinega, January 1914. 1970: US Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Late by at least a million dead Asians and Americans.

June 25. 1876: Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapahoe defeat Gen. Custer's troops at Little Big Horn, Montana. 1903: Modern prognosticator George Orwell (Eric Blair) born, Britain.