| August 24, 1968 France became the world’s fifth thermonuclear power when it exploded a hydrogen bomb at the Fangataufa Atoll in the South Pacific. It had a yield of 2.6 megatons (the equivalent of more than two-and-a-half million tons of TNT) and heavily contaminated the atoll, leaving it off-limits to humans for six years.  Fangataufa test Atmospheric and underwater nuclear weapons testing continued there for nearly thirty more years. |
| August 24, 1970 United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) leaders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta called for a consumer boycott of lettuce to support the strike against lettuce growers who would not negotiate contracts with the farm workers for decent wages and working conditions.  United Farm Workers show their support for the lettuce strike and boycott at a rally in Salinas, California. U.F.W. history  Farm Labor leader Cesar Chavez, pictured at a rally in Salinas, California The United Farm Workers today Farmworker Movement Documentation Project  Susan Due Pearcy    Boycott Posters and buttons |
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