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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
June 2:
I guess we no longer need to just pray for peace. Pope
John Paul II blesses the Vatican Parking Garage.
June 3:
1791 - The French Assembly votes decapitation as
the standard method of execution for those sentenced to death.
June 4:
1967 - The emmy for best comedy is won by the TV show
The Monkees. Say what?!
1989 - Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in
Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement; hundreds - possibly thousands
- of people died. Many were run over by vehicles, and others killed
by automatic gunfire. Beijing streets run red with blood. But official
versions state there was "no gunfire". Later in June many
of the student leaders are publicly executed.
 2002 - Dennis Kozlowski resigned from Tyco on this date,
a day after the Manhattan district attorney charged him with evading
$1 million in sales tax on artwork and other luxury items he allegedly
purchased with company funds.
By late summer, Dennis' fortunes weren't looking so good as Tyco provided
a list of allegedly unauthorized purchases, including $15,000 for an
umbrella stand, $6,300 for a sewing basket, $17,000 for a "traveling
toilette box," a $2,200 wastebasket, $2,900 for coat hangers, $5,900
for two sets of sheets, a $1,650 appointment notebook, and a $445 pincushion.
June 5:
 1851
- Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly began to
appear in serial form in the Washington National Era, an abolitionist
weekly. Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery story was published in
forty installments over the next ten months. For her story Mrs. Stowe
was paid $300.
Although the weekly had a limited circulation, its audience
increased as reader after reader passed their copy along to another.
In March 1852, a Boston publisher decided to issue Uncle Tom's Cabin
as a book and it became an instant best  seller.
Three hundred thousand copies were sold the first year, and about 2,000,000
copies were sold worldwide by 1857. For one three month period Stowe
reportedly received $10,000 in royalties. Across the nation people discussed
the novel and hotly debated the most pressing socio-political issue
dramatized in its narrative, slavery.
Because Uncle Tom's Cabin so polarized the abolitionist
and anti-abolitionist debate, some claim it to be one of the causes
of the Civil War. Indeed, when President Lincoln received its author,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, at the White House in 1862, legend has it he
exclaimed, "So this is the little lady who made this big war?"
(Library
of Congress)
June 6:
1990 - A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., declared
as obscene the 2 Live Crew album ''As Nasty As They Wanna Be.'' The
decision was overturned on appeal.
June 7:
1892 - A man of mixed race named Plessy was arrested when
he refused to move from a seat reserved for whites on an East Louisiana
Railway train in New Orleans. His case led to the U.S. Supreme Court's
landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896, in which the justices
ruled that separate accomodations for blacks were not inherently unequal.
2000 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered
the breakup of Microsoft Corp., declaring the software giant should
be split into two because it had ''proved untrustworthy in the past.''
June 8:
1998 The National Rifle Association
elected Charlton Heston its president. How do you go from playing Moses
to being the mouthpiece for the NRA? (Sigh)...
June 9:
1978 Leaders of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding
black men from the Mormon priesthood.
June 10:
1985 - Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old
formula. Power to the people!
June 11:
1963 - After defying a federal court order to allow two
blacks to enroll at the University of Alabama, Gov. George Wallace relented
following a confrontation with federal troops.
June 12:
1964 - South Africa sentences Nelson
Mandela to life imprisonment.
June 13:
1971 - NY Times began publishing "The
Pentagon Papers".
June 14:
1966 - The Vatican announced that its
'Index of Prohibited Books' (created by Pope Paul IV in 1557) had been
abolished.
June 15:
1520 - Leo X issued the papal encyclical 'Exsurge Domine,'
which condemned German Reformer Martin Luther as a heretic on 41 counts
and branded him an enemy of the Roman Catholic Church.
 2002
- A jury found the accounting firm Arthur Anderson guilty of obstructing
justice when it shredded Enron documents. On Oct. 16, a federal judge
imposed the maximum sentence - a $500,000 fine and five years' probation,
but that was largely a formality since the firm already had lost most
of its clients. The company vowed to appeal.
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