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Events from History on May 31

1417 : Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen
1495 : Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand,
1495 : Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League
1531 : "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted
1564 : Battle on Gotland: Lbeck & Denmark beat Sweden
1621 : Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
1634 : US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1659 : Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague
1665 : Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
1678 : Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes
1696 : John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
1727 : France, England & Netherlands sign accord of Paris
1744 : French troops conquer Kortrijk
1790 : US copyright law enacted
1821 : Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic
1821 : cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore
1836 : HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
1837 : Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1847 : Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
1849 : Last edition of Orange sheet "Journal de La Haye"
1853 : Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance
1859 : Phila A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later
1861 : Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1861 : Mint at New Orleans closes
1862 : Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks)
1864 : Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
1868 : 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1868 : velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris
1870 : Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
1870 : E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement
1878 : German battleship Grosser Kurfrst sinks, 284 killed
1878 : US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation
1879 : 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
1879 : Madison Square Garden opens
1880 : League of American Wheelmen (1st US bicycle assn), forms in Newport RI
1883 : French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar
1884 : Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1889 : Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn
1891 : Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
1899 : -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails
1899 : Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park
1900 : British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg
1900 : Piet de Law captures Lt-Col Spragges Irish Yeomanry
1900 : US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1902 : Australia Cricket all out 36 v England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever
1902 : Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
1905 : Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger
1906 : Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid
1907 : Taxis 1st began running in NYC
1908 : Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
1909 : 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
1910 : Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
1910 : Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
1910 : Union of South Africa declares independence from UK
1912 : US marines land on Cuba
1913 : 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
1914 : Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1
1915 : An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
1916 : Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
1916 : British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6
1917 : 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1919 : 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
1919 : NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
1921 : Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700
1923 : China & USSR exchange diplomats
1926 : Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
1926 : Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
1927 : Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A)
1927 : Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
1928 : 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland
1928 : Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season
1929 : Atlantic City Convention Center opens
1930 : Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season
1930 : Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
1930 : Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
1935 : Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
1935 : Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
1937 : 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University)
1937 : German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
1940 : Gen-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
1940 : Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris
1941 : -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record)
1941 : 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
1941 : 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
1941 : British troops vacate Kreta
1941 : German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
1942 : 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City NJ
1942 : Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
1943 : "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
1943 : Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters
1944 : Allied breakthrough in Italy
1947 : Communists grab power in Hungary
1947 : Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
1947 : Italian govt of Gasperi forms
1948 : Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings)
1949 : 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA
1949 : Charley Lupica begins stay on 4ý' platform atop a 60' pole, vowing
1949 : to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, & stays 117 days)
1950 : Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins
1950 : Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial
1951 : Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord
1953 : Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
1953 : WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1955 : Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
1955 : Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1955 : Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
1956 : Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
1957 : Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1958 : Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
1958 : US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1961 : Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens
1961 : JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
1961 : Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate
1961 : Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth
1962 : "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
1964 : Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
1965 : Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy
1969 : "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 132 perfs
1969 : John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
1969 : Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"
1970 : At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
1970 : KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 : WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 : Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
1974 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 : "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 104 performances
1975 : Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition
1976 : Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London
1977 : "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances
1977 : Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
1977 : Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
1979 : "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 108 performances
1979 : Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
1979 : Zimbabwe proclaims independence
1980 : Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich
1982 : "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 63 perf
1984 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 : 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
1985 : Guatemala adopts constitution
1985 : New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
1985 : Tornados in Penn, Ohio, NY & Canada kill 88 & injured more than 1,000
1989 : "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC)
1989 : 1st International Rock Awards
1989 : 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
1989 : Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns
1990 : NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
1990 : Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles
1991 : Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
1991 : Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
1992 : 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa & Crazy For You win
1992 : 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000
1993 : President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
1994 : Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates
1996 : Mark Van Thillo & Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000
1996 : lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures
1997 : "Once Upon a Matress," closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 187 perf
1997 : Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
2002 : USA asked its citizens to avoid travel to India in view of tensions with its border.
2002 : Japan asked deployment of Global Monitors to look at the situation at the Indo-Pak border
2002 : Former Prime Minister of India, IK Gujaral suggested Mr. Vajpey and Gen. Mushraff meet at Almety to discuss

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