In total, 41 tornadoes touched down between 3 p.m. on May 31 and 12 a.m. on June 1, killing 90 people in total across the United States and Canada, with the most deadly tornado happening in the evening hours across Ohio and Pennyslvania. The tornado that struck Niles, Ohio was the deadliest tornado in Ohio since the Xenia tornado in 1974. The outbreak was the worst tornado outbreak in the United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak. It was also the third costliest in history, with $980 million in damage in Ohio, Pennyslvania, New York, and Ontario.
Monosemy
Monosemy is when the words in a language each have only one meaning. Most natural human languages are polysemous: words each have more than one meaning. The constructed languages Lojban and Loglan were created to be monosemous. Monosemy is helpful for machine translation.
Razan al-Najjar
Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar (11 September 1996 – 1 June 2018) was a Palestinian nurse. She volunteered in the Gaza health ministry. She was a resident of Khuzaa, a village near the border with Israel. She was born in Khuza'a, Khan Yunis.
Her formal training after volunteering was as a paramedic in Khan Younis at Nasser Hospital and she became an active member of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, a non-governmental health organization. She wore the white coat of the medics and a medics vest with bandages, and was attending those wounded during protests at the border fence between Gaza and Israel during Ramadan.
al-Najjar was fatally shot in the chest by an Israeli soldier as she, with her arms raised to show she was unarmed, tried to help evacuate the wounded near Israel's border fence with Gaza. She was 21 years old.
Karl Fritz Lauer
Karl Fritz Lauer (April 11, 1938 – June 5, 2018) was a Romanian-German Agricultural Scientist in Phytopathology and Herbology. He was born in Săcălaz (German Sackelhausen), Kingdom of Romania. After relocation to the German Federal Republic in 1981 he first worked as a scientist at the Botanical Institute of the University of Regensburg before taking over the management of the scientific field research for southern Germany for Rhône-Poulenc from 1983 to 1995.
Lauer died in Leonberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on June 5, 2018 at the age of 80.
Mateja Matevski
Mateja Matevski (13 March 1929 – 6 June 2018) was a Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator.
Matevski was the editor of the literary journals "Mlada literatura" Association. He was also been the president of the Council of the Struga Poetry Evenings Festival, "Racinovi sredbi". He was a corresponding member of the North-American Academy in the Spanish language. Matevski was a member of the Bjornstjerne Bjornson Academy in Molde, Norway.
Matevski died on 6 June 2018 in Skopje, Macedonia, aged 89. His funeral was held at the Butel City Cemetery in Skopje.
Brazilian Space Agency
The Brazilian Space Agency (; AEB) is the Brazilian agency for the country's growing space program. It runs a spaceport at Alcântara and a launch pad at Barreira do Inferno. The Brazilian Space Agency made Brazil a part of the International Space Station mission.
The Brazil Space Program was created in 1961 and was controlled by the Brazilian military. Since the military controlled the program, research there was not much research. Some technological research was not allowed because other countries were worried about developing ICBMs with nuclear bombs.
Brazil launched it's first Brazilian made satellite on February 9, 1993. The satellite was used to study space.
On February 10, 1994, the Brazilian military stopped running the Space Program, which then became the Brazilian Space Agency.
In 2003, a rocket exploded and killed 21 people. Brazil was able to successfully launch its first rocket into space on October 23, 2004. Several other successful launches have followed.
On March 30, 2006, Brazilian astronaut Marcos Pontes became the first Brazilian and the first native Portuguese-speaking person to go to space. He stayed on the International Space Station for a week. He landed in Kazakhstan on April 8, 2006 with the astronauts on Expedition 12.
The Alcântara Launch Center (; CLA) is the main launch site and home to the Brazilian Space Agency. It is in the state of Maranhão. This place is good because not many people live there and it is easy to protect. It also gives good access to the sky and sea. Since it is close to the equator, it makes launching a special type of satellite that stays over one part of the earth much easier.
The Barreira do Inferno Launch Center (; CLBI) is another launch site of the Brazilian Space Agency. It is in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. It is mostly used to launch a special type of rocket for research. It also helps the Alcântara Launch Center.
Freddy Eugen
Freddy Eugen (4 February 1941 – 8 June 2018) was a Danish cyclist. He was born in København, Denmark.
Eugen was active between 1961 and 1969 on the road and track. On track he won two European medals in the madison event in 1967 and 1968. On the road he won 9 six-day races out of 95 starts, including the Six Days of Amsterdam (1967), as well as one stage of the Tour de Suisse (1963).
Eugen died on 8 June 2018 in Copenhagen from esophageal cancer at the age of 77.
John McKenzie
John Albert "Pie" McKenzie (December 12, 1937 – June 8, 2018) was a Canadian professional hockey player and coach. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for several seasons. He notably played with the Boston Bruins, with whom he won the Stanley Cup twice (1970, 1072). McKenzie also played several seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA). He was born in High River, Alberta.
McKenzie also played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings and the New York Rangers.
McKenzie died at age 80 on June 8, 2018 from a long-illness in Boston, Massachusetts.
Thomas Stuttaford
Irving Thomas Stuttaford, OBE (4 May 1931 – 8 June 2018) was a British physician, author, and medical columnist of "The Times". He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1974.
In 2002, he retired as Senior Medical Advisor for Barclays Bank. In the years that followed he continued to write a regular monthly column for "The Oldie" and was a frequent contributor to "Healthspan", an online retailer of vitamin supplements, and occasionally to other national newspapers and journals.
Stuttaford died on 8 June 2018 at the age of 87.
Neal E. Boyd
Neal Evans Boyd (November 18, 1975 – June 10, 2018) was an American pop opera singer and television contestant. He was best known as being the winner of the third season of "America's Got Talent". He was born in Missouri.
Boyd signed to Decca Records and released his debut album, "My American Dream," on June 23, 2009, the day of the fourth season premiere of "America's Got Talent." It debuted at #195 on the "Billboard" 200 and #3 on the Top Classical Albums Chart.
Boyd was a Republican. He ran for a seat in the Missouri House of Representatives in 2012 and in 2014, but lost in the election.
Boyd died at the age of 42 on June 10, 2018, of heart and kidney failure in Sikeston, Missouri.
Katarzyna Łaniewska
Katarzyna Janina Łaniewska-Błaszczak (20 June 1933 – 7 December 2020) was a Polish actress, opposition activist in the Polish People's Republic, and a political activist beginning in 1989. She was born in Łódź, Poland. From 1970 to 1974, she starred in the comedy series "Czterdziestolatek".
In the Polish parliamentary elections in 2011, Łaniewska was the nonpartisan candidate to the Senate on behalf of the Law and Justice party in Warsaw. She received nearly 100 thousand votes (nearly 31%).
She was the president of the Warsaw branch of the Association of Polish Artists from 1992 to 2006. She served on the Skolimowska Commission of the Main Board of the Polish Actors Association.
From 1954 to 1964, she was married to actor Ignacy Gogolewski.
Łaniewska died on 7 December 2020 in Łódź at the age of 87.
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