June 6, 1949
George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published. It described a world in which totalitarian government controls the behavior of all, including the way one thinks, summed up in the government’s slogans: War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength.
June 6, 1989
The FBI and the Department of Energy, tipped off by plant workers, raided the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons production facility, near Denver. They found numerous violations of federal anti-pollution laws including massive contamination of water and soil. Rockwell International, the operator of the facility, was fined $18.5 million.
