The first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is released in theaters.
10 June 1886
Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large,…
8 June 1783
Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
7 June 1982
Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
5 June 1963
The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the “Profumo affair”.
4 June 1942
World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Ch?ichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese…