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Day Of The Week: 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 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 31
- 1678 –The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
- 1790 –Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
- 1790 –The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
- 1813 –In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
- 1854 –The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
- 1862 –American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) – Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
- 1916 –World War I: Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
- 1942 –World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
- 1985 –1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
- 2010 –In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in 9 civilian deaths when teams of IHH activists on the MV Mavi Marmara attacked them with knives and metal rods and abducted one of the soldiers.
Who were born on May 31?
- 1640 –Michael of Poland (d. 1673)
- 1911 –Maurice Allais, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
- 1912 –Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
- 1938 –Peter Yarrow, American folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
- 1962 –Corey Hart, Canadian musician
- 1963 –Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician
- 1963 –Wesley Willis, American musician (d. 2003)
- 1967 –Kenny Lofton, American baseball player
- 1983 –David Hernandez, American singer
- 1986 –Melissa McIntyre, Canadian actress
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