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Events on the 31st of May in history

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31 May 0070 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
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31 May 0455 Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
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31 May 0526 A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch killing 250,000.
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31 May 1223 Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans.
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31 May 1279 Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
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31 May 1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes Countess of Holland / Zealand / Henegouwen
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31 May 1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League
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31 May 1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted
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31 May 1564 Battle on Gotland: L
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31 May 1578 Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich in England to Frobisher Bay in Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
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31 May 1578 King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
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31 May 1621 Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
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31 May 1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
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31 May 1659 Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague
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31 May 1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
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31 May 1669 Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
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31 May 1678 Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes
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31 May 1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
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31 May 1727 France, England & Netherlands sign accord of Paris
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31 May 1744 French troops conquer Kortrijk
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31 May 1775 American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
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31 May 1790 Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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31 May 1790 The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
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31 May 1790 US copyright law enacted
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31 May 1795 French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
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31 May 1805 French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock.
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31 May 1813 In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
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31 May 1821 Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore
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31 May 1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
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31 May 1837 Astor Hotel (most elaborate in US) opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
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31 May 1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
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31 May 1849 Last edition of Orange sheet "Journal de La Haye"
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31 May 1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard the Advance
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31 May 1854 The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
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31 May 1859 Philadelphia Athletics organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later
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31 May 1859 The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
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31 May 1861 General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
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31 May 1861 Mint at New Orleans closes
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31 May 1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks)
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31 May 1862 American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks): Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
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31 May 1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks); North defeats South
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31 May 1864 American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant and George Meade.
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31 May 1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
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31 May 1866 In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of nine dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
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31 May 1868 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
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31 May 1868 Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris
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31 May 1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
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31 May 1870 E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement
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31 May 1878 German battleship Grosser Kurf
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31 May 1878 US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation
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31 May 1879 Madison Square Garden opens
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31 May 1879 Gilmores Garden in New York City, is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
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31 May 1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
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31 May 1879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors
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31 May 1880 League of American Wheelmen (1st US Bicycle Association), forms in Newport, Rhode Island
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31 May 1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar
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31 May 1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
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31 May 1884 The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria
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31 May 1889 Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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31 May 1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania
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31 May 1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
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31 May 1899 Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park
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31 May 1899 Conference of Bloemfontein fails
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31 May 1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg
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31 May 1900 Piet de Law captures Lieutenant-Colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry
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31 May 1900 Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)
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31 May 1900 US troops arrive in Peking, help put down Boxer Rebellion
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31 May 1902 Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
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31 May 1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 vs England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever
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31 May 1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
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31 May 1905 Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger
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31 May 1906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid
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31 May 1907 Taxis 1st began running in New York City
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31 May 1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
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31 May 1909 The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.
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31 May 1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
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31 May 1910 Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to New York City
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31 May 1910 Union of South Africa declares independence from the UK
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31 May 1910 The creation of the Union of South Africa.
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31 May 1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of the Union of South Africa
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31 May 1911 The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
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31 May 1911 The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
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31 May 1912 US marines land on Cuba
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31 May 1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
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31 May 1913 Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6)
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31 May 1914 Chicago White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleveland Indians, 6-1
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31 May 1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
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31 May 1916 World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet under the command of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty engage the Imperial German Navy under the command of Reinhard Scheer and Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
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31 May 1916 Battle of Skagerrak: British-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
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31 May 1916 British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6
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31 May 1916 During WWI British & German fleets fight Battle of Jutland
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31 May 1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
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31 May 1919 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
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31 May 1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
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31 May 1921 Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
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31 May 1921 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 chances
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31 May 1923 China and the USSR exchange diplomats
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31 May 1924 The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Beijing government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.
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31 May 1926 Portuguese President Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
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31 May 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
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31 May 1927 Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A)
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31 May 1927 The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
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31 May 1927 Detroit Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
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31 May 1928 1st aerial cross of the Pacific takes off from Oakland
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31 May 1928 Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season
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31 May 1929 The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
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31 May 1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
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31 May 1930 Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season
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31 May 1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
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31 May 1930 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
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31 May 1935 Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
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31 May 1935 A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
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31 May 1935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
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31 May 1937 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University)
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31 May 1937 Brooklyn Dodgers snap New York Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak
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31 May 1937 German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
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31 May 1938 Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's
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31 May 1940 General Major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
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31 May 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies to Paris
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31 May 1941 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
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31 May 1941 A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives.
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31 May 1941 Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
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31 May 1941 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
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31 May 1941 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington KS (state record)
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31 May 1941 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
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31 May 1941 British troops vacate Kreta
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31 May 1941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
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31 May 1942 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview Country Club - Atlantic City, New Jersey
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31 May 1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
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31 May 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
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31 May 1943 "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
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31 May 1943 Cardinals Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters
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31 May 1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy
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31 May 1947 79th Belmont Stakes: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6
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31 May 1947 Communists grab power in Hungary
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31 May 1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Port Deposit & Perryville MD, kills 53
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31 May 1947 Italian Government of Gasperi forms
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31 May 1948 Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings)
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31 May 1949 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage Country Club - Richmond, Virginia
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31 May 1949 Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later)
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31 May 1950 Due to rain, Indianapolis 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins
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31 May 1950 Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial
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31 May 1951 Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord
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31 May 1953 WSUN TV channel 38 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast
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31 May 1953 Lebanese President Camille Shamun disbands government
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31 May 1955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
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31 May 1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
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31 May 1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
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31 May 1956 Mickey Mantle homerun just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
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31 May 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
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31 May 1958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
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31 May 1958 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
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31 May 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open
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31 May 1961 The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
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31 May 1961 In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
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31 May 1961 Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern
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31 May 1961 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens
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31 May 1961 Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated
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31 May 1961 JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
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31 May 1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Education of New Rochelle, to integrate
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31 May 1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaving the Commonwealth
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31 May 1962 "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
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31 May 1962 The West Indies Federation dissolves.
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31 May 1962 "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
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31 May 1964 San Francisco Giants beat the New York Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hours 32 minutes)
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31 May 1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
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31 May 1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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31 May 1965 Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indianapolis 500
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31 May 1967 Bayern M
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31 May 1969 "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 132 performances
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31 May 1969 "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8
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31 May 1969 John Lennon andYoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
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31 May 1969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"
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31 May 1969 "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8
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31 May 1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
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31 May 1969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amour"
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31 May 1970 The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
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31 May 1970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
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31 May 1970 KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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31 May 1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open
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31 May 1971 In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
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31 May 1971 WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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31 May 1972 Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam
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31 May 1973 The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
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31 May 1973 Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season
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31 May 1974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
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31 May 1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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31 May 1975 "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 104 performances
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31 May 1975 Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition
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31 May 1976 Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London
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31 May 1977 "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances
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31 May 1977 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
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31 May 1977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
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31 May 1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
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31 May 1979 "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 108 performances
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31 May 1979 Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
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31 May 1979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence
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31 May 1980 "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38
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31 May 1980 Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich
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31 May 1981 The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka. It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
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31 May 1981 Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
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31 May 1982 "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 63 performances
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31 May 1983 37th NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers sweep Los Angeles Lakers in 4 games
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31 May 1984 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge
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31 May 1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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31 May 1984 Viv Richards hits 189 (170 balls) vs England, ODI cricket record
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31 May 1985 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
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31 May 1985 United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
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31 May 1985 41 Tornados in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York & Canada kill 88 & injure more than 1,000
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31 May 1985 Guatemala adopts constitution
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31 May 1985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
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31 May 1987 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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31 May 1987 Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mount McKinley, Alaska
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31 May 1987 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 3
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31 May 1989 "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC)
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31 May 1989 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
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31 May 1989 A group of six members of the guerrilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.
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31 May 1989 1st International Rock Awards
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31 May 1989 Speaker of the House Jim Wright resigns
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31 May 1990 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
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31 May 1990 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie
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31 May 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
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31 May 1990 Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles
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31 May 1991 Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission.
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31 May 1991 Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
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31 May 1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
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31 May 1992 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa & Crazy For You win
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31 May 1992 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000
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31 May 1992 Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
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31 May 1993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
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31 May 1994 Padres score 13 in 2nd vs Pirates
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31 May 1996 Mark Van Thillo & Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures
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31 May 1997 "Once Upon a Matress, " closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 187 performances
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31 May 1997 Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150 meter race
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31 May 1998 Wins Wegmans Rochester Golf International
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31 May 2005 Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
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31 May 2010 In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in nine civilian deaths.
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31 May 2013 The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
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