This Day in History for 31st May brought to you by HistoryOrb gc Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 204 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. 70 - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem 1223 - Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River - Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans. 1417 - Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen 1495 - Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League 1531 - Womens Revolt in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted 1564 - Battle on Gotland: Lubeck & Denmark beat Sweden 1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fools gold, used to pave streets in London. 1621 - Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night 1634 - US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony 1659 - Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague 1665 - Jerusalems rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah 1669 - Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. 1696 - John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius 1727 - France, Britain & Netherlands sign accord of Paris 1744 - French troops conquer Kortrijk 1759 - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions. 1790 - US copyright law enacted 1790 - Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Statesman/Philosopher Francis Bacon 1813 - In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains. 1821 - Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore 1836 - HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope 1837 - Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria 1847 - Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens 1849 - Last edition of Orange sheet Journal de La Haye 1853 - Elisha Kanes Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance 1859 - Phila As organize to play town ball became baseball 20 years later 1861 - Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line 1861 - Mint at New Orleans closes 1862 - Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks) 1864 - Raid at Morgans Kentucky 1868 - 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio 1868 - Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris 1870 - Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) 1870 - E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement 1875 - Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified 1878 - German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed 1878 - US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation 1879 - 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition 4th US President James Madison 1879 - Madison Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th President James Madison 1880 - League of American Wheelmen (1st US bicycle association), forms in Newport RI 1883 - French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar 1884 - Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents flaked cereal 1889 - Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn 1891 - Work on trans-Siberian railway begins 1893 - Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper) 1899 - -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails 1899 - Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park 1900 - British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg 1900 - Piet de Law captures Lt-Col Spragges Irish Yeomanry 1900 - Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074) 1900 - US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion 1902 - Australia Cricket all out 36 v England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever 1902 - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal 1905 - Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger 1906 - Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria of Battenberg in Madrid 1907 - Taxis 1st began running in NYC 1908 - Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium) 1909 - 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC) 1910 - Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa 1910 - Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC 1910 - Union of South Africa declares independence from UK 1911 - R.M.S. Titanic launched. 1912 - US marines land on Cuba 1913 - 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified 1913 - Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6) 1914 - Chicago White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1 1915 - An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London 1915 - Indianapolis 500: Ralph DePalma wins in 5:33:55.619 (144.583 km/h) 1916 - Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead) 1916 - British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 1917 - 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1919 - NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic 1919 - Indianapolis 500: Howdy Wilcox wins in 5:40:42.930 (141.703 km/h) 1920 - Indianapolis 500: Gaston Chevrolet wins in 5:38:31.901 (142.617 km/h) 1921 - Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 1923 - China & USSR exchange diplomats 1926 - Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup 1926 - Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia 1926 - Indianapolis 500: Frank Lockhart wins in 5:12:48.768 (154.343 km/h) 1927 - Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play 1928 - 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland 1928 - Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season 1929 - Atlantic City Convention Center opens 1930 - Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season 1930 - Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium 1930 - Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth 1931 - 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead. Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1935 - Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat 1935 - Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan 1937 - 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University) 1937 - Brooklyn Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbells 24-game winning streak 1937 - German battleships bombard Almeria, Spain 1937 - Indianapolis 500: Wilbur Shaw wins in 4:24:07.861 (182.789 km/h) 1938 - Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lords 1940 - Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk 1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with Marshal August Pétain who announces he is willing to make a seperate peace with Germany 1941 - -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record) 1941 - 1st issue of Parade goes on sale 1941 - 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton) 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 236 1443 - Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509) 1469 - Manuel I, King of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration 1472 - Erardus van der Mark, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal 1557 - Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Czar of Russia (1584-98) 1640 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673) 1656 - Marin Marias, composer 1664 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal 1674 - Friedrich Erhard Niedt, composer 1701 - Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible 1744 - Richard Edgeworth, writer, Bath 1753 - Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader 1773 - Ludwig Tieck, writer 1801 - Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887) 1802 - Cesare Pugni, composer 1804 - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer 1810 - Horatio Seymour, Gov (Union), died in 1886 1817 - Edouard Deldevez, composer 1817 - Georg Herwegh, writer 1818 - John Albion Andrew, Gov (Union), died in 1867 1819 - Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass) 1835 - Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese military leader (d. 1869) 1837 - Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror) 1837 - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 1837 - William Henry Fitzhugh Rooney Lee, Major General (Confederate Army) 1838 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University) 1852 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919) 1857 - Pius XI, [Ambrogio DA Ratti], Italy, 259th Pope (1922-39) 1860 - Walter Richard Sickert Munich, Danish/English painter (The Miner) 1861 - Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker (1st christmas seal drive, 1907) 1863 - Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer 1864 - Albert J M Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch) 1866 - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer 1872 - Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun) 1872 - William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote) 1875 - Italo Montemezzi, composer 1879 - Mark Hambourg, composer 1882 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956) 1883 - Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942) 1885 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazis escape trial (d. 1963) 1887 - Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960) [or Mar 31] 1888 - Jack Holt, US, golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone) 1889 - Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink) 1892 - Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader 1892 - Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Bespokojnaja Joenostj) [NS] 1892 - Louis Fourestier, composer 1892 - Willem Ravelli, baritone singer 1892 - Michel Kikoine, Belarus painter (d. 1968) 1892 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (d. 1968) 1894 - Fred Allen, Cambridge Massachusetts, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show) 1897 - Margalo Gillmore, London, actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society) 1898 - Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter 1898 - Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking) 1899 - Leonid Leonow, writer 1900 - Helma Wolf-Catz, Dutch author (Undercurrent, Coral Reef) 1901 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983) 1902 - Billy Mayerl, composer 1902 - Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor/conductor 1902 - Ralph Walter Wood, composer 1905 - Roy Peaches Davis, baseball pitcher 1905 - Florence Desmond, English actress and comedian (d. 1993) 1907 - Valston Hancock, British air marshal 1908 - Don Ameche, Kenosha WI, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places) 1908 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (d. 2000) 1909 - Jan Lewando, British director (Marks & Spencer) 1909 - Thor Thorvaldsen, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) 1910 - Francis Avery Jones, British gastro-enterologist 1911 - Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector 1912 - Barbara Pepper, NYC, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Rogue Tavern) 1912 - Dave OBrien, Big Springs TX, actor (Kiss Me Kate, 1st Aid) 1912 - Henry M Scoop Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash) 1912 - Martin Schwarzschild, US astronomer (evolution) 1912 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979) 1913 - Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral 1914 - Akira Ifukube, composer 1916 - Bert Haanstra, Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare) 1916 - John Vivyan, actor (Mr Lucky, Wrong Man, Imitation of Life) 1916 - Judy Campbell, actress (Convoy, Bonnie Prince Charlie) 1919 - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer 1919 - Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician 1920 - Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles) 1921 - Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress (Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man) 1921 - Andrew Grima, British jeweller 1921 - Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X) 1921 - Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer 1922 - Denholm Elliott, London, actor (Alfie, Cuba, Dolls House, King Rat) 1922 - Elisabeth, arch duchess of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein 1923 - Rainier III, Monaco, Prince of Monaco (1949-2005) 1923 - Wolfgang Lesser, composer 1924 - Russell Endean, cricketer (28 Tests for South Africa, handled the ball 1956) 1926 - Derek Birley, British Vice-Chancellor (Ulster U) 1926 - Probir Sen, cricket wicketkeeper (India in late 40s/early 50s) 1926 - Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, British peer and business man 1927 - Isabel Stoate, British diplomat 1927 - James Eberle, Brit admiral/director (Royal Institute of Intl Affairs) 1927 - Michael Sandberg, British CEO (Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp) 1927 - Red Holloway [James], Helena, Arkansas, jazz tenor saxophonist, (d. 2012) 1928 - Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard) 1928 - Pankaj Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad) 1929 - Aladar Zoltan, composer 1929 - Elaine Stewart, Montclair NJ, actress (Take the High Ground) 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 5 of 5 1919 - 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas) 1991 - Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia 1998 - Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch (33) weds daughter of prominent Tibetan activists Dechen Wangdu in New York 2002 - NYPD Blue actress Sharon Lawrence (30) weds doctor Thomas Apostle at Saint Sophia Cathedral in Los Angeles 2008 - Law & Order actress Alana De La Garza (31) weds writer Michael Roberts in Orlando, Orange County, Florida Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 117 455 - Petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched 1091 - Hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91), dies 1198 - Moses ben Solomon Ha-Cohen, rabbi of Mainz, dies 1246 - Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England 1349 - Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297) 1408 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358) 1410 - King Martin I of Aragon (b. 1356) 1495 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, (b. 1415) 1504 - Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies 1551 - Aristotele Basiano da Sangallo, Italian set designer, dies 1558 - Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505) 1567 - Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies 1567 - Guido de Bres, Belgian theologian (b. 1522) 1594 - Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75 1620 - Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59 1665 - Pieter J Saenredam, Dutch architectural painter, dies at 67 1680 - Joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650) 1696 - Heinrich Schwemmer, composer, dies at 75 1740 - Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51 1747 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686) 1799 - Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715) 1809 - Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel, dies in battle at 33 1809 - Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies at 77 1809 - Jean Lannes, French marshal (b. 1769) 1831 - Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757) 1832 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811) 1837 - Joseph Grimaldi, greatest clown (king of pantomime), dies at 57 1846 - Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780) 1847 - Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780) 1848 - Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805) 1849 - Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 69 1854 - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer, dies at 34 1862 - Robert Hatton, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 34 1900 - James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1871-75), dies at 75 1900 - John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle 1906 - Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56 1906 - King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid 1906 - Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid 1908 - C L Boy Johnson, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies 1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839) Physician Elizabeth Blackwell (1910) 1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89 1916 - Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle 1928 - Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85 1928 - Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian, dies at 60 1931 - Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866) 1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinated 1947 - Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39 1947 - Henri Casadesus, French violist/composer (viola damour), dies at 67 1948 - Jose Vianna da Motta, composer, dies at 80 1952 - Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies 1955 - Wild Bill Vukovich, killed in Indy 500 1955 - Raoul Gunsbourg, composer, dies at 95 1957 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878) 1960 - Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78 1960 - Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890) 1961 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877) 1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56 1962 - Eduardo Toldra, composer, dies at 67 1962 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (b. 1874) 1963 - Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at 63 1967 - Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915) 1970 - Terry Sawchuk, hockey player (b. 1929) 1971 - Dainty Ironmonger, cricketer (74 wkts in 14 Tests after age 46), dies 1971 - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator, dies at 75 1972 - Walter Freeman, American physician (b. 1895) 1973 - Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 89 1974 - Adelle Davis, US nutrionalist (Lets stay healthy), dies at 70 1976 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies 1976 - Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell, dies in NY at 57 1977 - William Castle, American film director (b. 1914) 1978 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925) 1979 - Nigel Howard, cricketer (England captain 1951-52 tour of India), dies Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey (1983) 1983 - Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champ/actor, dies at 86 1986 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917) 1987 - Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies 1989 - C L R James, cricket writer (distinguished Trinidadian), dies 1989 - Charles A Hufnagel, doc (artificial heart valve pioneer), dies at 72 1989 - Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondent, dies at 53 of cancer 1991 - Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies 1991 - H N Swanie Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke 1992 - Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dies at 52 1993 - John Granger, actor (Advise & Consent), dies at 69 1993 - Spuds Mackenzie, American advertisement dog 1994 - Doug Freeman, cricketer (2 Tests of leg-spin for NZ 1933), dies 1994 - Emmanuel Manny Klein, trumpeter, dies at 86 1994 - Herva Nelli, soprano, dies at 85 1994 - Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86 1995 - Tim Mara, owner (NY Giants), dies at 59 1996 - Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker, dies at 80 1996 - Elsbeary Hobbs, singer, dies at 59 1996 - Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies 1996 - Paul Peter Piech, artist, dies at 76 1996 - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer, dies at 68 1996 - Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard prof/LSD guru, dues of cancer at 75 1997 - Rosie Will Monroe, WW II icon (Rosie the riveter), dies at 76 1997 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b. 1905) 1998 - Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (b. 1912) 2000 - Tito Puente, American musician (b. 1923) 2000 - Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938) 2001 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 1907)
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