This time, we're looking back to the week of 6th - 12th June.
On the 6th June, 1968, While campaigning for president, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died of a bullet wound from assassin Sirhan Sirhan.
On the 7th June, 1982, Graceland—Elvis Presley's home in Memphis, Tennessee, where he died in 1977—was opened for public tours and became one of the top tourist attractions in the United States.
On 8th June, 1949, British author George Orwell published his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-four, a warning against totalitarianism that introduced such concepts as Big Brother and the Thought Police. It may not have happened then, but a lot of what he wrote seems to be coming true now.
0n 9th June, 1983, Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, buoyed by victory in the Falkland Islands War and by deep divisions within the opposition Labour Party, was easily reelected to a second term in office.
On 10th June, 1940, Italy, under the rule of Benito Mussolini, declared war against France and Great Britain, entering World War II.
On 11th June, 2001, Timothy McVeigh—convicted of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, which killed 168 people in what was then the worst terrorist attack in the U.S.—was executed
On 12th June, 1991, Boris Yeltsin was easily elected president of Russia (then part of the Soviet Union) in the republic's first direct, popular elections, and he was president of independent Russia until the eve of 2000.
And on this week in 1965, Sandie Shaw was spending her second of three weeks as the British Number One with her hit, 'Long Live Love'
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