On this day
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A talk show costs a lot less than a scripted drama. If Jay Leno is only a modest success in the 10 p.m. slot, that could persuade other networks to change their strategies.
Brian Deese, who had never even set foot inside an auto assembly plant, is the little-known hand behind the restructuring of the American automobile industry.
A sharper focus on bringing huge-screen movies to the multiplex and not just the museum is beginning to pay off.
Rarely has a company fallen so far and so fast as General Motors, which ruled the car industry for over 50 years.
Underlying a battle over derivatives trading is a broader debate over what the right amount of regulation is.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 27, 2009, covering June 1, 2009.
Green Day
Soundtrack
Cam'Ron
Lady Gaga
Rascal Flatts
2009Vincent O'Brien, Irish horse trainer (born 1917)[†]
Michael Vincent O'Brien was an Irish race horse trainer from Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland. In 2003 he was voted the greatest influence in horse racing history in a worldwide poll hosted by the Racing Post. In earlier Racing Post polls he was voted the best ever trainer of national hunt and of flat racehorses. He trained six horses to win the Epsom Derby, won three Grand Nationals in succession and trained the only British Triple Crown winner, Nijinsky, since the Second World War. He was twice British champion trainer in flat racing and also twice in national hunt racing; the only trainer in history to have been champion under both rules. Aidan O'Brien took over the Ballydoyle stables after his retirement.
2009Air 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.[†]
Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed indications and miscommunication led to the pilots inadvertently stalling the Airbus A330. They failed to recover the plane from the stall, and the plane crashed into the mid-Atlantic Ocean at 02:14 UTC, killing all 228 passengers and crew on board.
2009General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.[†]
General Motors Company (GM) is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company is most known for owning and manufacturing four automobile brands: Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac, each a separate division of GM. By total sales, it has continuously been the largest automaker in the United States, and was the largest in the world for 77 years before losing the top spot to Toyota in 2008.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]