About May 31

May 31, 2025 is the 151st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 214 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 262 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On May 31

  • 1578 –
    King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris.
  • 1678 –
    The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
  • 1790 –
    The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
  • 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.
  • 1862 –
    American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) – Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
  • 1909 –
    The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the NAACP, convenes for the first time.
  • 1910 –
    Creation of the Union of South Africa.
  • 1911 –
    President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1941 –
    Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
  • 1961 –
    The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
  • 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.
  • 2005 –
    Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
  • 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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