In History – GM Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

TODAY IN HISTORY - June 1st:

1880 - 1st pay telephone installed
1971 - Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS
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.

2009 - General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1926 - Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Mortenson], LA, actress
1934 - Pat Boone, Florida, singer/actor
1937 - Morgan Freeman, Academy award winning actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1956 - Lisa Hartman Black, singer/actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing), born in Houston, Texas
1973 - Heidi Klum, Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, German supermodel

1949 - Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz wed for the second time
1985 - Country singer Merle Haggard (48) weds fourth wife Debbie Parret
1997 - Grammy Award-winning singer Kenny Rogers (59) weds Wanda Miller (31) at his ranch in Athens, Georgia

GOODBYE TO:

1968 - Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87
1996 - Ray Combs, TV host (Family Feud), commits suicide at 40
2008 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
2014 - Ann B. Davis, American actress, dies from a subdural hematoma from a fall at 88

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