About May 31
May 31, 2023 is the 151st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 214 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 255 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 31
- 526 –A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch, Turkey, killing 250,000.
- 1223 –Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River – Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans.
- 1790 –Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1910 –Creation of the Union of South Africa.
- 1911 –President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
- 1911 –The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
- 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.
- 1927 –The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
- 1962 –Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
- 1962 –The West Indies Federation dissolves.
- 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.
- 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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