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#OnThisDay June 30, 1986: In the Bowers v. Hardwick decision the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of an anti-gay Georgia sodomy, leading to the massive National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights on October 11, 1987.

#OnThisDay June 29, 1948: Indictments were issued in Smith Act Trial against the Communist Party USA leadership, claiming that the CPUSA had been in violation of the anti-communist Smith Act since July 1945.

#OnThisDay June 28, 1969: The Stonewall riots began in New York City, igniting modern LGBTQ liberation movement. (image: painting by Baret Boisson Art)

#OnThisDay June 27, 1988: The army of apartheid South Africa was forced by Angolan defense forces, thousands of Cuban soldiers, and others, to start withdrawing from Angola after 13 years’ intervention in that country’s civil war.

#OnThisDay June 27, 1993: A.E. Staley locked out 763 workers from a corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois. The workers, members of AIW Local 837 fought a heroic and militant battle for 2 1/2 years, setting an example of class struggle unionism.

#OnThisDay June 26, 1950: The Suppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 (renamed in 1976 the Internal Security Act) passed in South Africa, banning the Communist Party of South Africa and any party or group subscribing to the ideology of communism.

#OnThisDay June 25, 1975: Mozambique wins independence after 470 years of Portuguese colonial rule. The Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) led the national liberation movement, which succeeded after 10 years of armed struggle.

#OnThisDay June 24, 1945: Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 honored the incalculable sacrifice needed to defeat the Nazis in World War II. This was a victory parade held by the Red Army after the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War.

#OnThisDay June 23, 1947: Congress overrode President Truman's veto and passes the anti-union and anti-communist Taft-Hartley Act. Many Democrats joined with Republican lawmakers to pass the bill and curb the power of unions.

#OnThisDay June 22, 1941: Nazi Germany begins Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union during World War II. Over four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 1,800-mile front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare.

#OnThisDay June 21, 1964: Three civil rights workers, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were lynched on the night of June 21–22, 1964 by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and local police officers.

#OnThisDay June 20, 1920: Eduardo Mondlane was born. Mondlane was the leader of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) from 1962 until he was assassinated in 1969. FRELIMO led the armed struggle in Mozambique for independence from Portuguese colonialism.

#OnThisDay June 20, 1933: Clara Zetkin died. Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. In 1911, she organized the first International Women's Day.

#OnThisDay June 20, 1848: Albert Parsons was born. Early American socialist and anarchist newspaper editor, speaker, and labor activist. 1 of 4 Chicago radical leaders framed and convicted of conspiracy and hanged following the Haymarket affair.

June 19th is celebrated as #Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, commemorating the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas in 1865— two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

#OnThisDay June 19, 1953: At the peak of McCarthyist anti-communist hysteria, the US government executes Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for supposedly spying for the Soviet Union.

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#OnThisDay June 18, 1954: The CIA carried out a coup d’état against the democratically-elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, replacing it with a brutal military dictatorship.