This week in history

June 1, 2005
Issue 
628

June 1

1848: The first issue of Karl Marx's Neue Rheinische Zeitung is published.

June 2

1972: Unions ban the servicing of UTA aircraft in opposition to French nuclear tests.

June 4

1982: 26,000 textile workers begin a strike in the Export Processing Zone in Bataan, the Philippines.

1989: Tiananmen Square massacre, China.

June 5

1831: Tarerenoore, female resistance leader against European invasion in Tasmania, dies in custody.

1879: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is born.

June 6

1988: Two-million people strike against apartheid in South Africa.

1996: Environmentalists begin blockades in the Goolengook River area.

June 7

1997: Former editors of the student newspaper Rabelais lose their appeal over charges relation to publishing a shoplifting guide.

From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, June 1, 2005.
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