By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

A 1981 player strike ran between June 12 and August 10.

The Abbé had even observed eight days of a hunger strike from May 26, 1984 to June 3 in the Cathedral of Turin to protest the conditions suffered by " Brigadists " in Italian prisons and the imprisonment without trial of Vanni Mulinari, who was recognized as innocent some time afterwards.

On June 4, a general strike was called by the FSLN to last until Somoza fell and an uprising was launched in Managua.

Osirak was destroyed on 7 June 1981 by an Israeli air strike ( Operation Opera ).

Before Ellison could begin work on the show's production bible, a writers ' strike began, running from March 6 to June 24.

* June 11 – A medical doctors ' strike begins in Vienna.

* June 17 – An Air France personnel strike begins.

* June 4 – Fatos Nano resigns as Prime Minister of Albania following a nationwide strike.

* June – Annie Besant organizes the London matchgirls strike of 1888.

* June 1 – American miners begin a strike, which successfully establishes the United Mine Workers Union and brings about the 8-hour work day to mines.

* June 26 – A 2-day steel strike begins in Italy, in support of increased wages and a 5-day working week.

On 3 June 2011 American manned jets or drones attacked and killed Abu Ali al-Harithi, a midlevel al-Qaeda operative, and several other militant suspects, including Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa ' eli, in a strike in southern Yemen.

In 1903 “ the whole of South Russia in May, June and July was aflame ,” including Baku where separate wage struggles culminated in a city-wide general strike, and Tiflis, where commercial workers gained a reduction in the working day, and were joined by factory workers.

On 5 June, the Six-Day War began with a preemptive Israeli air strike that decimated the Egyptian air force.

From early June, in order to support the students ' struggle, workers and businessmen in Shanghai also went on strike.

* June 25, 1976: Huge workers ' strike against the communist regime ; the town becomes one of the main centres of anti-communist opposition in Poland ( see June 1976 protests )

In June, 1919, the AFL national organization, in session in Atlantic City, New Jersey, passed resolutions in opposition to the general strike.

On June 10 the federal government ordered the arrest of eight strike leaders ( including J. S.

On June 9, at the behest of the Committee, the City of Winnipeg Police Commission dismissed almost the entire city police force for refusing to sign a pledge promising to neither belong to a union nor participate in a sympathetic strike.

On June 10 the federal government ordered the arrest of eight strike leaders ( including J. S.

At 11: 00 a. m. on June 26, 1919, the Central Strike Committee officially called off the strike and the strikers returned to work.

The eight strike leaders arrested on June 17 were eventually brought to trial.

By June 1941, 81 % of the miners of the national coalmining company, Charbonnages de France, were on strike, slowing deliveries of coal for the German war industry.

After representatives of the government met with leaders of the Jiu Valley coal miners union, thousands of miners were organized and arrived in Bucharest June 14.

Two months later, these protesters, whom the government referred to as " hooligans ", were brutally dispersed by the miners from Jiu Valley, called in by President Iliescu ; this event became known as the mineriad ( see June 1990 Mineriad ).

Later Parliamentary inquiries showed that members of the government intelligence services were involved in the instigation and manipulation of both the protesters and the miners, and in June 1994 a Bucharest court found two former Securitate officers guilty of ransacking and stealing $ 100, 000 from the house of a leading opposition politician.

* June 28 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.

* May – June – Merthyr Rising 1831: Coal miners and others riot in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales for improved working conditions.

In June 1855, Montez departed for a tour of Australia to resume her career by entertaining miners at the gold diggings during the gold-rush of the 1850s, arriving at Sydney on 16 August 1855.

* June 28, 1896: The Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City caved-in and killed 58 miners.

* June 5, 1919: An explosion at the Baltimore Colliery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania killed 92 miners.

With the discovery of gold near Canyon City in June 1862, and near Granite in July 1862, gold miners streamed into the area.

In June 1985, three months after the miners admitted defeat and ended their strike, Benn introduced the Miners ' Amnesty ( General Pardon ) Bill into the Commons, which would have extended an amnesty to all miners imprisoned during the strike.

Every year in June Providence hosts the annual Coal Festival in celebration of the coal mines and miners that have long been a part of the city's history.

The first major tragedy occurred in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine near the city's railroad junction on June 28, 1896, when a massive cave-in killed 58 miners.

He, along with other figures in the leading FSN, was allegedly responsible for calling the Jiu Valley miners to Bucharest on 28 January and June 14, 1990 to end the protests of the citizens gathered in University Square, Bucharest, protests aimed against the ex-communist leaders of Romania.

On 18 June 1835 a gas explosion in one of the tunnels killed 102 miners.

From November 1860 through to June 1861 anti-Chinese miners attacked Chinese gold miners in the area, now known as the infamous Lambing Flat riots.

The Roll Up banner around which a mob of about 1, 000 men rallied and attacked Chinese miners at Lambing Flat in June 1861.

The main group to answer the call were the coal miners of Jiu Valley, leading to the June 1990 Mineriad.

Parliamentary inquiries showed that members of the government intelligence services were involved in the instigation and manipulation of both the protesters and the miners, and later, in June 1994, a Bucharest court found two former Securitate officers guilty of ransacking and stealing $ 100, 000 from the house of a leading opposition politician.

Following the miners ' strike in May and June 1941 which spread throughout the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, many miners ( mostly communists ) were arrested and executed at Arras.