About May 31
May 31, 2024 is the 152nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 214 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 243 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 31
- 1578 –Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool’s gold, used to pave streets in London.
- 1859 –The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
- 1866 –In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian’s 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
- 1884 –Arrival at Plymouth of Tawhiao, King of Maoris, to claim protection of Queen Victoria
- 1889 –Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
- 1902 –Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
- 1909 –The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the NAACP, convenes for the first time.
- 1916 –World War I: Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
- 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.
- 1927 –The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
- 1942 –World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
- 1961 –In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
- 1961 –The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
- 1962 –The West Indies Federation dissolves.
- 1970 –The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
- 1973 –The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
- 1977 –The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
- 1985 –1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
- 2009 –Anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder shoots and kills physician George Tiller during church services in Wichita, Kansas.
- 2010 –In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in 9 civilian deaths when teams of IHH activists on the MV Mavi Marmara attacked them with knives and metal rods and abducted one of the soldiers.
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