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
- 1279 BC –Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
- 526 –A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch, Turkey, killing 250,000.
- 1578 –Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool’s gold, used to pave streets in London.
- 1669 –Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
- 1790 –The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
- 1854 –The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1927 –The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations’ UNAVEM II mission.
- 2005 –Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
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