The 31st o Mey is the 151st day o the year (152nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 214 days ti come.
Events
1911 : Launch o the RMS Titanic in Belfast
1970 : Cathedral ruin in Yungay, Peru
1669 - Samuel Pepys maks the last entry in his diary.
1859 - Big Ben chimes for the first time.
1889 - A flash flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvanie , kills 2,200 fowk.
1910 - Sooth Africae gains unthirldom.
1911 - The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast .
1916 - Warld War I : The Battle o Jutland is focht.
1935 - A magnitude 7.7 yirdquauk strikes Quetta in present-day Pakistan , killin 40,000 fowk.
1941 - Warld War II : Luftwaffe raid on Dublin .
1946 - A yirdquauk in Turkey kills 1,200 fowk.
1962 - Sooth Africae becomes a republic.
1962 - The 1962 FIFA Warld Cup in Chile stairts.
1970 - The 1970 FIFA Warld Cup in Mexico stairts.
1970 - A major yirdquauk strikes the Ancash region o Peru . A major landslide buries the toun o Yungay.
1977 - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline is completit.
1985 - 41 tornadoes hit Ohio , killin 77 fowk.
2002 - The 2002 FIFA Warld Cup in Japan an Sooth Korea stairts; first-time pairteecipants Senegal defeat the defendin champions Fraunce 1-0 in the openin gemme.
2005 - W. Mark Felt is revealed as "Deep Throat", a major figure in Watergate scandal that brocht doon US Preses Richard Nixon in 1974 .
2010 - Israeli commandos storm a Turkis aid flotilla. 9 activists are kilt.
2010 - German Preses Horst Koehler demits efter creeticism o comments he made on German militar operations in Afghanistan ; Christian Wulff replaces him a month later.
2017 - A bomb attack in central Kabul , Afghanistan , kills at least 150 fowk.
2018 - The discovery o dunes o methane gas on the dwarf planet Pluto is propaled.
2018 - US Preses Donald Trump imposes tarriffs on products frae the European Union , Canadae an Mexico .
2019 - 12 fowk are shot deed bi thair colleague at a muneecipal biggin in Virginia Beach ; he is shot deed in an exchange wi polis arrivin on the scene.
Births
Clint Eastwood
Svetlana Alexievich
1557 - Feodor I o Roushie (d. 1598 )
1773 - Ludwig Tieck , German poet an novelist (d. 1853 )
1819 - Walt Whitman , American poet (d. 1892 )
1857 - Pape Pius XI (d. 1939 )
1860 - Archibald Thorburn , Scots penter (d. 1935 )
1887 - Saint-John Perse , French poet an diplomat (d. 1975 )
1908 - Don Ameche , American actor (d. 1993 )
1923 - Rainier III, Prince o Monaco (d. 2005 )
1925 - Frei Otto , German airchitect (d. 2015 )
1930 - Clint Eastwood , American actor an director
1931 - John Robert Schrieffer , American pheesicist (d. 2019 )
1935 - Harry Melrose , Scots fitbawer
1938 - John Prescott , umwhile Deputy Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
1943 - Sharon Gless , American actress
1945 - Laurent Gbagbo , umwhile Preses o Ivory Coast
1945 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder , German actor an director (d. 1982 )
1948 - Svetlana Alexievich , Belaroushie jurnalist an writer
1948 - Lynda Bellingham , Inglis actress (d. 2014 )
1949 - Tom Berenger , American actor
1950 - Edgar Savisaar , Estonie politeecian
1953 - Stuart Kennedy , Scots fitbawer
1963 - Viktor Orban , Prime meenister o Hungary
1964 - Billy Davies , Scots fitbawer an coach
1965 - Brooke Shields , American model an actress
1976 - Colin Farrell , Erse actor
1978 - Robert Rinder , Inglis creeminal law advocate an telly personality
1989 - Marco Reus , German fitbawer
Daiths
455 - Petronius Maximus , Roman Emperor (b. 396 )
1594 - Tintoretto , Italian penter (b. 1518 )
1740 - Frederick I o Proushie (b. 1688 )
1809 - Joseph Haydn , Austrick componer (b. 1732 )
1847 - Thomas Chalmers , Scots pastor, social reformer, eddicator, writer an scientist (b. 1780 )
1962 - Adolf Eichmann , German Nazi offeecial (b. 1906 )
2010 - Louise Bourgeois , French-American airtist an sculptor (b. 1911 )
2017 - Tino Insana , American actor (b. 1948 )
Halidays
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