June 8
1984: Homosexuality is decriminalised in NSW.
June 11
1872: Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1981: IRA political prisoner Kieran Doherty is elected as an Irish MP while on hunger strike.
June 12
1964: Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa.
June 13
1995: French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear testing in French Polynesia.
June 16
1936: Aboriginal activist and Freedom Rider Charlie Perkins is born.
1976: Police open fire on a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, killing 566 youth.
June 18:
1970: The first Green Ban is imposed in NSW by the Builders Labourers Federation to stop development at Kelly's Bush.
June 20
1880: Ned Kelly is captured in Glenrowan.
1933: German communist Clara Zetkin dies.
June 21
1979: A 24-hour strike is called to protest the arrest of union officials in WA.
From Green Left Weekly, June 8, 2005.
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