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Monday, 01 June 2026

2009

General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.

Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.

2007

Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.

2003

The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.

2001

Nepalese royal massacre : Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.

Dolphinarium massacre: an Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.

1999

American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.

1993

Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.

1990

George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.

1989

Oba Chandler murders an Ohio family on their Florida vacation by drowning them in Tampa Bay.

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