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Birthday May 31, 1469 Manuel I, king of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration |
Birthday May 31, 1819 Walt Whitman is born |
Birthday May 31, 1819 Walt Whitman, American poet (Leaves of Grass) in West Hills, NY |
Birthday May 31, 1857 Pius XI, 259th Roman Catholic pope (1922-39) |
Birthday May 31, 1872 Heath Robinson, English illustrator, cartoonist |
Birthday May 31, 1887 Saint-John Perse, French poet, diplomat (Nobel 1960) |
Birthday May 31, 1898 Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman |
Birthday May 31, 1908 Don Ameche, Actor (Cocoon) |
Birthday May 31, 1912 Henry Jackson, (D, sort of), former U.S. senator from Washington |
Birthday May 31, 1920 Edward Bennett Williams, attorney |
Birthday May 31, 1923 Rainier III, prince of Monaco (1949-, ) |
Birthday May 31, 1929 Elaine Stewart |
Birthday May 31, 1930 Clint Eastwood born |
Birthday May 31, 1930 Clint Eastwood, Actor/mayor (Dirty Harry) |
Birthday May 31, 1933 Shirley Verrett, American mezzo-soprano New Orleans La |
Birthday May 31, 1938 Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary |
Birthday May 31, 1939 Terry Waite, Church envoy |
Birthday May 31, 1941 Johnny Paycheck, Country Singer |
Birthday May 31, 1943 Joe Namath, NY Jets QB |
Birthday May 31, 1943 Sharon Gless, in LA |
Birthday May 31, 1950 Gregory Harrison |
Birthday May 31, 1950 Tom Berenger |
Birthday May 31, 1965 Brooke Shields, Actress/model NYC |
History May 31, 1433 Joan of Arc has a hot time at stake |
History May 31, 1678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry |
History May 31, 1775 Mecklenburg Resolutions reject the power of the British in North Carolina |
History May 31, 1809 Composer Franz Josef Hayden died in Vienna Austria |
History May 31, 1854 Kansas Territory established |
History May 31, 1862 Battle of Fair Oaks - Va; North defeats South |
History May 31, 1862 Yankees and Rebels clash at Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) |
History May 31, 1868 1st recorded bicycle race - 2 kilometers in Paris |
History May 31, 1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition |
History May 31, 1879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors |
History May 31, 1887 George Goodfellow investigates earthquake |
History May 31, 1889 The Johnstown Flood |
History May 31, 1889 Johnstown Flood; 2 -000 die in Penn |
History May 31, 1889 The Johnstown Flood |
History May 31, 1900 US troops arrive in Peking - help put down Boxer Rebellion |
History May 31, 1902 The Boer War ends |
History May 31, 1910 Union of South Africa formed |
History May 31, 1913 17th amendment providing popular election of senators |
History May 31, 1916 Battle of Jutland |
History May 31, 1916 During WW I British & German fleets fought Battle of Jutland |
History May 31, 1929 Ford signs agreement with Soviet Union |
History May 31, 1941 Germans conquer Crete |
History May 31, 1955 Construction begins on cosmodrome launch facilities |
History May 31, 1956 Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof |
History May 31, 1961 South Africa becomes a republic (Natl Day) |
History May 31, 1962 WW II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann hung in Israel |
History May 31, 1962 Architect of the Holocaust hanged in Israel |
History May 31, 1964 A killer who can't keep his mouth shut |
History May 31, 1965 Operation Rolling Thunder continues |
History May 31, 1970 Communist soldiers escape South Vietnamese forces |
History May 31, 1970 Tens of thousands in Peru die in an earthquake |
History May 31, 1974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights |
History May 31, 1976 Martha Mitchell wife of former Att General John Mitchell dies in NY |
History May 31, 1977 The BBC bans the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen |
History May 31, 1988 Three U.S. presidents close chapters on the Cold War |
History May 31, 1988 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Moscow ends |
History May 31, 1996 Netanyahu elected prime minister of Israel |
History May 31, 1997 Ila Borders pitches in minor league game |
History May 31, 2005 Deep Throat is revealed |