Historical Events on June 1 (Part 2)

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• 1984 Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
• 1984 Russian super heavyweight weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev snatches world record 211 kg

• 1986 40th Tony Awards: "I'm Not Rappaport" (play) & "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (musical) win

• 1988 "Morton Downey Jr Show" debuts in TV syndication
• 1988 Train crash kills two in Zeeland, Netherlands
• 1989 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
• 1990 Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
• 1990 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
• 1992 E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
• 1992 Snowfall in Colorado
• 1992 Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Chicago Blackhawks, 6-5 for a 3-1 series win; 2nd consecutive title for Penguins
• 1993 Brooklyn NY begins recycling

• 1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
• 1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi
• 1993 Phoenix Suns guard Dan Majerle sets a then NBA Playoff record by sinking 8 three-pointers during the Suns’ 120-114 win over Seattle in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals
• 1994 FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
• 1994 Indiana guard Reggie Miller drills an NBA Playoff record 5 three-pointers in the 4th quarter of the Pacers’ 93-86 win over host New York Knicks in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals

• 1995 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
• 1995 Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers' scoreless inning streak ends at 39 in a 6-3 win over the Minnesota Twins

• 1996 H. D. Deve Gowda becomes Prime Minister of India, serving until April 1997
• 1996 Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
• 1997 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186
• 1997 51st Tony Awards: "Titanic" (musical) & "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" (play) win
• 1997 After a huge 7-month buildup, Donovan Bailey of Canada beats American superstar Michael Johnson in 150m race in Toronto; disappointingly, Johnson pulls up at 110m mark with quadriceps injury
• 1997 Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
• 1997 LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked
• 1998 Australian Susie Maroney becomes first person to swim from Mexico to Cuba across shark and jellyfish-infested waters of the Yucatan Straits; swims 123-miles in 38 hours 33 minutes in a cage
• 1998 European Central Bank is founded in Brussels to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy

• 2000 The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
• 2001 Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv
• 2001 Nepalese Royal Massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his parents, two siblings, and five other family members during dinner at the Narayanhiti Palace, in Katmandu

• 2003 The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam
• 2005 The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection
• 2005 The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.

• 2008 A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
• 2008 Jason Koumas captains Wales for the first time
• 2009 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 were killed.
• 2009 General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
• 2012 Johan Santana throws first no-hitter in the New York Mets' 50-year MLB history when he beats the St. Louis Cardinals, 8 - 0

• 2015 Cruise ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River, less than 50 survive
• 2016 Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel is completed - world’s longest at 57km and most expensive tunnel costing €11bn

• 2018 Rouzan al-Najjar, a 22 year-old Palestinian medic is shot and killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border, causing widespread condmnation

• 2018 US unemployment rate falls to 3.8%, lowest since 2000
• 2019 Mexican-American boxer Andy Ruiz Jr produces a huge upset when he stops English champion Anthony Joshua in 7 at Madison Square Garden; wins IBF, WBO, IBO and WBA world heavyweight titles
• 2019 Price of a movie ticket rises in Japan for the first time in 26 years from ¥1,800 to ¥1,900, while some cinemas keep the price the same
• 2020 US President Trump threatens to employ the military to quell protests across the country sparked by the death of George Floyd then walks with staff to St. John’s Church
• 2021 Malaysia begins a full two-week lockdown as COVID-19 cases surge with record 9,020 news cases recorded May 29
• 2021 Prehistoric carvings, between 4,000 and 5,000 years old depicting deer, found in Scotland for the first time at Kilmartin Glen, Argyll

• 2021 US President Joe Biden's administration suspends oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing Donald Trump's decision
• 2022 Turkey officially changes its name to Türkiye at the United Nations and internationally [1]
• 2022 US Coast Guard Admiral Linda Fagan, assumes post of Commandant, becoming 1st female commander of US military branch
• 2023 US Congress passes bipartisan legislation raising $31.4 trillion debt ceiling avoiding a default, after deal struck between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy [1]
• 2024 World's largest-ever election ends in India after six weeks with 642 million people voting in the country's general election, including a record 312 million women [1]

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