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Day Of The Week: May 31
May 31, 2024 is the 152nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 214 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Friday.
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
- 1578 –Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool’s gold, used to pave streets in London.
- 1775 –American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolutions are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
- 1790 –French Revolution: the Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
- 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.
- 1866 –In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian’s 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
- 1902 –Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
- 1911 –President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
- 1929 –The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, “The Karnival Kid”, is released.
- 1942 –World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
Who were born on May 31?
- 1753 –Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French statesman (d. 1793)
- 1905 –Florence Desmond, English actress and comedian (d. 1993)
- 1911 –Maurice Allais, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
- 1940 –Gilbert Shelton, American underground comics illustrator
- 1947 –Junior Campbell, British musician and songwriter (The Marmalade)
- 1948 –Duncan Hunter, American politician
- 1962 –Corey Hart, Canadian musician
- 1962 –Sebastian Koch, German actor
- 1975 –Yiasoumis Yiasoumi, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1990 –Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
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