HISTORY AT A GLANCE
TODAY is Thursday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2017. There are 213 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:
1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead
France by decree for six months. 1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel. 1962 – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting. 1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day). 1967 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The
Beatles is released. 1974 – Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant
kills 28 people. 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is
published in the journal Emergency Medicine. 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent
Cooperation Treaty are filed. 1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now
Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power. 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting. 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a
treaty to end chemical weapon production. 1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo. 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. 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. 2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills
21 at a disco in Tel Aviv. 2003 – The People’s Republic of China begins filling the
reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam. 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 are killed. 2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is
the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. 2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people. 2014 – A bombing at a football field in Mubi, Nigeria, kills at
least 40 people. 2015 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River
in China’s Hubei province, killing 400 people.