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Anniversaries
June 1
Wreckage of American Airlines Flight 1420
1676 – Scanian War : The Swedish warship Kronan , one of the largest ships in the world at the time, sank at the Battle of Öland with the loss of around 800 men.
1857 – The Revolution of the Ganhadores , the first general strike in Brazil, began in Salvador, Bahia .
1974 – In an informal article in a medical journal, Henry Heimlich introduced the concept of abdominal thrusts , commonly known as the Heimlich maneuver, to treat victims of choking .
1988 – Group representation constituencies were introduced to the parliament of Singapore .
1999 – On landing at Little Rock National Airport in the U.S. state of Arkansas , American Airlines Flight 1420 overran the runway and crashed (wreckage pictured) , resulting in 11 deaths.