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On This Day, June 7
- 2017: A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.
- 2000: The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
- 1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
- 1989: Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
- 1982: Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.