May 31 - Definition and Overview

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

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1 Events

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 - Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
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.

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)
1656 - Marin Marais, French composer and viol player.
1750 - Karl August of Hardenberg, statesman and reformer (d. 1822)
1753 - Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French revolutionist (d. 1793)
1773 - Ludwig Tieck, German poet and writer (d. 1853)
1801 - Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
1819 - Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892)
1838 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (d. 1900)
1857 - Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
1860 - Walter Sickert, English painter (d. 1942)
1872 - Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (d. 1944)
1883 - Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish president (d. 1942)
1892 - Michel Kikoine, Belarus paitner (d. 1968)
1894 - Fred Allen, American comedian (d. 1956)
1898 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)

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)

Example Usage of May
	avarielwings: @enelya it isn't, but the person May well deserve it
	micahbrich: @cpytel haha that made me blush. and May be something worth thinking about.
	mikehenrysr: RT @Iconic88: " Prayer May not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things."

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