31. May

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The May 31 is the 151st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 152nd in leap years ), thus remain 214 days by year end.

Historic anniversaries
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22nd 23 24 25th 26th 27 28
29 30th 31

Events

Politics and world events

455: Solidus of Petronius Maximus
1740: Friedrich II.
1902: The Vereeniging contract is signed at Melrose House
1916: Battle of the Skagerrak
1940: rubble of the Chopin monument
The Mavi Marmara 2010

economy

1846: Göltzschtal bridge

science and technology

1873: Priam's treasure
1879: Siemens electric locomotive

Culture

1817: La gazza ladra ; Stage design for the premiere

society

1669: Samuel Pepys
  • 1669 : Because of his deteriorating eyesight, Samuel Pepys , as secretary of the Admirality a senior official in the British Treasury and Naval Office, makes the last entry in his diary.
1859: Big Ben

religion

1660: Mary Dyer's execution
  • 1660 : Quaker Mary Dyer is sentenced to death for the second time in Boston for entering the city to protest against the Quaker banishment . She was hanged the following day.
  • 1665 : The Jewish religious scholar Schabbtai Zvi declares himself Messiah. His followers are hereinafter called Sabbatians .
1890: Ulm Minster Tower
1970: Brasília Cathedral

Disasters

  • 1892 : Careless handling of a miner's lamp causes a fire in the Marie mine in Příbram on the 29th level at a depth of 950 m. 319 miners are killed. It is the worst mining accident in the world to date.
  • 1889 : The South Fork Dam above Johnstown in the US state of Pennsylvania breaks in a storm - over 2,000 people are killed.
  • 1935 : The city of Quetta on the western border of British India (now Pakistan ) is largely destroyed by an earthquake of around 7.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale . The quake claims around 30–40,000 lives.
  • 1946 : An earthquake of intensity 6.0 in Turkey causes about 1,200 deaths.
  • 1970 : The Ancash earthquake causes a total of 66,000 deaths in Peru . Around 10,000 victims have been recorded in the capital of Huaraz in the Ancash region . In the northern Peruvian city of Yungay alone , up to 20,000 people die in a landslide . From the Huascarán massif , a mud, ice and debris avalanche falls at around 220 km / h, which only comes to rest after 14 kilometers.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .

Born

Before the 18th century

Manuel I (* 1469)

18th century

Karl August von Hardenberg (* 1750)

19th century

1801-1850

Georg Herwegh (* 1817)

1851-1900

Pius XI. (* 1857)
Saint-John Perse (* 1887)

20th century

1901-1925

Maurice Allais (* 1911)
Alidda Valli (* 1921)

1926-1950

Clint Eastwood (born 1930)
Winfried Schlepphorst (* 1937)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (* 1945)

1951-1975

Tommy Emmanuel (born 1955)
Brooke Shields (born 1965)

1976-2000

Colin Farrell (born 1976)
Marlies Schild (* 1981)
Marco Reus (* 1989)

21st century

Died

Before the 17th century

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu († 1408)

17th and 18th centuries

19th century

Joseph Haydn († 1809)
Éliphas Lévi († 1875)

20th century

1901-1950

Gorch Fock († 1916)

1951-2000

Walther Funk († 1960)
Timothy Leary († 1996)

21st century

Raymond Davis Jr. († 2006)
Mohamed Abdelaziz († 2016)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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