May 31

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May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years). There are 214 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England, destined to mine fool's gold at Frobisher Bay, which is used to pave streets in London.
1779 - Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1678 - The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
1759 - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
1790 - Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Seven Pines.
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Cold Harbor begins.
1866 - In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 800 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English.
1884 - John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes.
1889 - Johnstown Flood: Over 2200 people die in the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1902 - Second Boer War: The last Afrikaner resistance forces sign a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the war, and ensuring British control of South Africa.
1910 - Creation of the Union of South Africa.
1913 - The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing direct election of United States Senators, is declared ratified.
1916 - World War I: The Battle of Jutland.
1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: More than 300 were killed in a race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
1921 - Comedian Buster Keaton marries actress Natalie Talmadge.
1924 - The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect
1942 - The Luftwaffe bombs Coventry, England
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army.
1961 - Creation of the Republic of South Africa.
1962 - The West Indies Federation dissolves
1974 - Syria and Israel sign a disengagement agreement to resolve the Yom Kippur War
1977 - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
1985 - The US-Canadian Outbreak occurred. Forty-one tornadoes occurred in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario. Seventy-six dead.
1997 - The Confederation Bridge opens.
2002 - May 31 through June 30 - 17th Football World Cup in Japan and South Korea.
2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
2004 - A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of ten million account balances.

Births

1048 - Omar Khayyam, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher (d. 1131)
1443 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1469 - King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
1750 - Karl August of Hardenberg, statesman and reformer (d. 1822)
1753 - Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, revolutionist (d. 1793)
1773 - Ludwig Tieck, poet and writer (d. 1853)
1801 - Johann Georg Baiter, philologist (d. 1887)
1819 - Walt Whitman, poet (d. 1892)
1838 - Henry Sidgwick, philosopher (d. 1900)
1857 - Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
1860 - Walter Sickert, painter (d. 1942)
1872 - Heath Robinson, cartoonist (d. 1944)
1883 - Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish president (d. 1942)
1892 - Michel Kikoine, Belarus paitner (d. 1968)
1894 - Fred Allen, comedian (d. 1956)
1898 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman (d. 1993)
1908 - Don Ameche, actor (d. 1993)
1912 - Alfred Deller, singer, early modern countertenor (d. 1979)
1922 - Denholm Elliott, actor (d. 1992)
1923 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco
1926 - James Kr�ss, author (d. 1997)
1929 - Menahem Golan, producer
1930 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer
1932 - Jay Miner, microchip designer (d. 1994)
1938 - Johnny PayCheck, country music singer (d. 2003)
1938 - John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1938 - Peter Yarrow, singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary")
1939 - Terry Waite, humanitarian
1943 - Sharon Gless, actress
1943 - Joe Namath, American football star
1945 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, director (d. 1982)
1948 - John Bonham, drummer ("Led Zeppelin") (d. 1980)
1949 - Tom Berenger, actor
1950 - Gregory Harrison, actor
1960 - Chris Elliott, comedian
1961 - Lea Thompson, actress
1962 - Corey Hart, singer/songwriter
1963 - Wesley Willis, musician
1965 - Brooke Shields, model and actress
1976 - Colin Farrell, actor
1984 - Dylan Gard, porn star

Deaths

455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor
455 - Petronius Maximus, Roman Emperor (killed by a mob)
1246 - Queen consort Isabella of Angouleme
1680 - Joachim Neander, clergyman
1740 - King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia
1747 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1799 - Pierre Lemonnier, astronomer
1809 - Joseph Haydn, composer
1809 - Jean Lannes, french Marshal of Empire
1831 - Samuel Bentham, mechanical engineer
1846 - Philip Marheineke, German Protestant divine
1848 - Eug�nie de Gu�rin, writer
1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States
1957 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
1960 - Walther Funk, Nazi leader
1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official
1977 - William Castle, director
1983 - Jack Dempsey, boxer
1996 - Paul Peter Piech, artist
1996 - Timothy Leary, LSD advocate
2000 - Tito Puente, musician
2000 - Johnnie Taylor, vocalist
2003 - Cai Li, Chinese athlete and weightlifter
2004 - Robert Quine, punk rock guitarist (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances

Feast day of Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces
The Godiva procession
World No Tobacco day
Syaday (Discordianism) (5th day of the season of Confusion, honors Apostle Sri Syadasti)

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