June 8

New York City drawbridge tenders, in a dispute with the state over pension issues, leave a dozen bridges open, snarling traffic in what the Daily Newsdescribed as "the biggest traffic snafu in the city's history" – 1971

 Also on this date: Battle between the Militia and striking miners at Dunnville, Colo. ended with six union members dead and 15 taken prisoner. Spectator mine disaster kills 168, Butte, Mont. Some 35,000 members of the Machinists union begin what is to become a 43-day strike – the largest in airline history – against five carriers. Earliest recorded strike by Chinese immigrants to the U.S.

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