31 Mey

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The31st o Meyis the 151st day o the year (152nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 214 days ti come.

Events

1669-Samuel Pepysmaks the last entry in his diary.
1859-Big Benchimes for the first time.
1889- A flash flood in Johnstown,Pennsylvanie,kills 2,200 fowk.
1910-Sooth Africaegains unthirldom.
1911- TheRMS Titanicis launched inBelfast.
1916-Warld War I:TheBattleo Jutland is focht.
1935- A magnitude 7.7yirdquaukstrikes Quetta in present-dayPakistan,killin 40,000 fowk.
1941-Warld War II:Luftwaffe raid onDublin.
1946- AyirdquaukinTurkeykills 1,200 fowk.
1962-Sooth Africaebecomes a republic.
1962- The 1962FIFA Warld CupinChilestairts.
1970- The 1970FIFA Warld CupinMexicostairts.
1970- A majoryirdquaukstrikes the Ancash region oPeru.A major landslide buries the toun o Yungay.
1977- The Trans-AlaskaPipeline is completit.
1985- 41 tornadoes hitOhio,killin 77 fowk.
2002- The2002 FIFA Warld CupinJapananSooth Koreastairts; first-time pairteecipantsSenegaldefeat the defendin championsFraunce1-0 in the openin gemme.
2005-W. Mark Feltis revealed as "Deep Throat", a major figure in Watergate scandal that brocht doon US PresesRichard Nixonin1974.
2010-Israelicommandos storm aTurkisaid flotilla. 9 activists are kilt.
2010- German PresesHorst Koehlerdemits efter creeticism o comments he made on German militar operations inAfghanistan;Christian Wulffreplaces him a month later.
2017- A bomb attack in centralKabul,Afghanistan,kills at least 150 fowk.
2018- The discovery odunesomethanegas on the dwarf planetPlutois propaled.
2018- US PresesDonald Trumpimposes tarriffs on products frae theEuropean Union,CanadaeanMexico.
2019- 12 fowk are shot deed bi thair colleague at a muneecipal biggin inVirginia Beach;he is shot deed in an exchange wi polis arrivin on the scene.

Births

1557-Feodor I o Roushie(d.1598)
1773-Ludwig Tieck,German poet an novelist (d.1853)
1819-Walt Whitman,American poet (d.1892)
1857-Pape Pius XI(d.1939)
1860-Archibald Thorburn,Scots penter (d.1935)
1887-Saint-John Perse,French poet an diplomat (d.1975)
1908-Don Ameche,American actor (d.1993)
1923-Rainier III, Prince o Monaco(d.2005)
1925-Frei Otto,German airchitect (d.2015)
1930-Clint Eastwood,American actor an director
1931-John Robert Schrieffer,American pheesicist (d.2019)
1935-Harry Melrose,Scots fitbawer
1938-John Prescott,umwhile Deputy Prime Meenister o theUnitit Kinrick
1943-Sharon Gless,American actress
1945-Laurent Gbagbo,umwhilePresesoIvory Coast
1945-Rainer Werner Fassbinder,German actor an director (d.1982)
1948-Svetlana Alexievich,Belaroushie jurnalist an writer
1948-Lynda Bellingham,Inglis actress (d.2014)
1949-Tom Berenger,American actor
1950-Edgar Savisaar,Estonie politeecian
1953-Stuart Kennedy,Scots fitbawer
1963-Viktor Orban,Prime meenisteroHungary
1964-Billy Davies,Scots fitbawer an coach
1965-Brooke Shields,American model an actress
1976-Colin Farrell,Erse actor
1978-Robert Rinder,Inglis creeminal law advocate an telly personality
1989-Marco Reus,German fitbawer

Daiths

455-Petronius Maximus,Roman Emperor (b.396)
1594-Tintoretto,Italian penter (b.1518)
1740-Frederick I o Proushie(b.1688)
1809-Joseph Haydn,Austrick componer (b.1732)
1847-Thomas Chalmers,Scots pastor, social reformer, eddicator, writer an scientist (b.1780)
1962-Adolf Eichmann,German Nazi offeecial (b.1906)
2010-Louise Bourgeois,French-American airtist an sculptor (b.1911)
2017-Tino Insana,American actor (b.1948)

Halidays

Internaitional No Tobacco Day
Castile-La ManchaDay