“Raiders of the Lost Ark” Opened On This Date In 1981 It’s the
movie Hollywood was born to make, and was born making. It has
buried treasures and Nazi villains, poison darts and mystical
wraiths, damsels in distress and Arabian swordsmen, snake pits,
submarines, booby-trapped jungle caverns, Himalayan taverns,
Egyptian bazaars and an archaeologist hero with the grit of
Bogart, the dash of Gable and the fearlessness of Superman. It’s
called “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and it’s about as pure an
example of the Hollywood summer movie as anything since “Jaws”
and “Star Wars.” Newsweek June 15, 1981 On This Date In 1980,
Mount St. Helens Goes Boom With a blast as powerful as the
largest hydrogen bomb ever tested, Washington’s 9,677-foot Mount
St. Helens blew its top last week — the first eruption of a
volcano in the contiquous United States in more than 60 years
and by far the most destructive. At least 18 people died and 88
more were missing in the devastated moonscape of the mountain
itself. Newsweek June 2, 1980