31 Mey

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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

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

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

Internaitional No Tobacco Day
Castile-La Mancha Day