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 –King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris.
- 1669 –Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
- 1775 –American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolutions are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
- 1790 –French Revolution: the Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1910 –Creation of the Union of South Africa.
- 1911 –The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1981 –Burning of Jaffna library, Sri Lanka, It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
- 1991 –Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations’ UNAVEM II mission.
- 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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