Notable Historical Events on May 31st
May 31st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1279 |
Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. |
BC AD | |
70 |
Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem |
1223 |
Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River - Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans. |
1417 |
Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen |
1495 |
Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League |
1531 |
"Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted |
1564 |
Battle on Gotland: Lubeck & Denmark beat Sweden |
1578 |
Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London. |
1621 |
Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night |
1634 |
The colony of Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony |
1659 |
Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague |
1665 |
Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah |
1669 |
Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. |
1696 |
John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius |
1727 |
France, Britain & Netherlands sign accord of Paris |
1744 |
French troops conquer Kortrijk |
1759 |
The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions. |
1790 |
US copyright law enacted |
1790 |
Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca. |
1813 |
In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains. |
1821 |
Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic 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 |
Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris |
1870 |
Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) |
1870 |
E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement |
1875 |
Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified |
1878 |
German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed |
1878 |
US Congress accepts decrease in dollar circulation |
1879 |
1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition |
1879 |
Madison Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th President James Madison |
1880 |
League of American Wheelmen (1st US bicycle association), 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 |
1893 |
Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper) |
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 BE Spragges, 13th Battalion Irish Imperial Yeomanry |
1900 |
Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074) |
1900 |
US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion |
1901 |
At the opening of the Greek National Assembly, Prince George, High Commissioner of Crete, asks it to endorse the union of Crete with Greece; the proposal is later rejected |
1902 |
Australia Cricket all out 36 v England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever |
1902 |
Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal |
1902 |
Labor trouble and riots lead Spanish King Alfonso XII to impose martial law |
1905 |
Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger |
1906 |
Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria of 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 |
1911 |
R.M.S. Titanic launched, Belfast |
1912 |
US marines land on Cuba |
1913 |
17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified |
1913 |
Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6) |
1914 |
Chicago White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1 |
1915 |
An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London |
1915 |
Indianapolis 500: Ralph DePalma wins in 5:33:55.619 (144.583 km/h) |
1916 |
Battle of Jutland (Skagerrak): naval battle betwwen British Grand Fleet and German High Seas Fleet: 10,000 die in this inconcluisve slaughter |
1916 |
British battle cruiser HMS Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 (Battle of Jutland) |
1919 |
NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic |
1919 |
Indianapolis 500: Howdy Wilcox wins in 5:40:42.930 (141.703 km/h) |
1920 |
Indianapolis 500: Gaston Chevrolet wins in 5:38:31.901 (142.617 km/h) |
1921 |
Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 |
1923 |
China & USSR exchange diplomats |
1923 |
The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) forms in Durban, South Africa, with Omar Hajee Amod Jhaveri as President. |
1926 |
Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup |
1926 |
Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia |
1926 |
Indianapolis 500: Frank Lockhart wins in 5:12:48.768 (154.343 km/h) |
1927 |
Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play |
1928 |
1st aerial crossing 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 |
1931 |
7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead. |
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 |
Brooklyn Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak |
1937 |
German battleships bombard Almeria, Spain |
1937 |
Indianapolis 500: Wilbur Shaw wins in 4:24:07.861 (182.789 km/h) |
1938 |
Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's |
1940 |
Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk |
1940 |
Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with Marshal August Pétain who announces he is willing to make a seperate peace with Germany |
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 Crete |
1941 |
German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools |
1941 |
A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives. |
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 |
79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6 |
1947 |
Communists grab power in Hungary |
1947 |
Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53 |
1947 |
Italian government of Gasperi forms |
1948 |
Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings) |
1948 |
Indianapolis 500: Mauri Rose wins in 4:10:23.286 (192.822 km/h) |
1949 |
31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA |
1949 |
Charley Lupica begins stay on 4 foot square platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, & stays 117 days) |
1950 |
Indianapolis 500: Due to rain, race shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins |
1950 |
Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial |
1951 |
Netherlands & 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 |
1954 |
Indianapolis 500: Bill Vukovich wins in 3:49:17.261 (210.567 km/h) |
1955 |
Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities |
1955 |
Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to rail strike |
1955 |
US 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) |
1959 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open |
1961 |
Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern |
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 |
1962 |
The West Indies Federation dissolves. |
1964 |
Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim |
1964 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
1964 |
SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins) |
1965 |
Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy |
1965 |
Indianapolis 500: Jim Clark wins in 3:19:05.370 (242.506 km/h) |
1967 |
Bayern Munchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Nuremberg |
1967 |
Indianapolis 500: A.J. Foyt wins in 3:18:24.211 (243.344 km/h) |
1968 |
American movie star Jimmy Stewart retires from the Air Force after 27 years of service, and is promoted to major general by President Reagan |
1969 |
"Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 132 perfs |
1969 |
"Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8 |
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 |
1970 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open |
1971 |
WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam |
1973 |
Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th run of English cricket season |
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 |
"Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38 |
1980 |
Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich |
1981 |
Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
1982 |
"Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 63 perfs |
1983 |
37th NBA Championship: Phila 76ers sweep LA Lakers in 4 games |
1984 |
57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge |
1984 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1984 |
Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) v England, ODI cricket record |
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 |
1985 |
1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead. |
1985 |
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States. |
1987 |
Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1987 |
Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska |
1987 |
Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 3 |
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 US House of Representatives Jim Wright resigns |
1990 |
63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne |
1990 |
BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie |
1990 |
NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce |
1990 |
Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles |
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 |
1992 |
Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
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 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 |
1997 |
The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick. |
2002 |
The New Jersey Nets defeat the Boston Celtics 96-88 in Game 6 of the NBA's Eastern Conference Championship, winning the series 4 games to 2 to advance to their first NBA Finals appearance. |
2008 |
Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds. |
2010 |
Shayetet 13 soldiers tried to stop the flotilla that wanted to break the blockade on Gaza Strip. During the boarding on the MV Mavi Marmara ship, a violent confrontation had started. It caused the death of 9 activists who were on board, and several more injured activists. Moreover, several israeli soldiers were injured. |
2012 |
Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency |
2014 |
Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube |
2016 |
South Korea Says North Korea Missile Launch Likely Failed |
2016 |
Rossi Earns More Than $2.5 Million for Indianapolis 500 Win |
2016 |
Outrage mounts over gorilla killing in boy's rescue at Ohio zoo |
2016 |
Ohio zoo defends shooting of gorilla after boy fell in enclosure |
2016 |
UNC edges Maryland in OT for first NCAA lacrosse championship in 25 years |
2017 |
Pentagon successfully tests ICBM defense system for first time |
2017 |
Explosion in diplomatic area of Kabul kills 9, wounds dozens |
2018 |
Volcanic lava flow spurs more evacuations on Hawaii's Big Island |
2018 |
75 homes destroyed by Hawaiian volcanic eruption as haze detected in Guam |
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