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
- 1669 –Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
- 1790 –Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
- 1790 –French Revolution: the Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
- 1813 –In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
- 1859 –The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
- 1864 –American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant & George G. Meade.
- 1884 –Arrival at Plymouth of Tawhiao, King of Maoris, to claim protection of Queen Victoria
- 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.
- 1911 –President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
- 1921 –Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
- 1935 –A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
- 1941 –A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives.
- 1961 –In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
- 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.
- 1977 –The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
- 1981 –Burning of Jaffna library, Sri Lanka, It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
- 1985 –1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
- 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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