Incidents on 1 June 2023
Thursday, 1 June 2023 — before continuous monitoring began on 9 August 2026. For this day we hold earthquakes from the USGS catalogue (magnitude 2.5 and above) and a few historical records, not a full record of every incident.
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A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
Cyclone Gonu develops from an area of convection in the Arabian Sea, becoming the worst recorded natural disaster in Oman.
The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.