Timeline Thursday 1 June 1961

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Thursday 1 June 1961

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1961 – 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961-2023) Died 23 August 2023, aged 62 Russian businessman who founded the Wagner Group and led an armed mutiny against the Russian military. He died in a plane crash two months later.

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