This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
05/31/1469 Manuel I, King of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration 
05/31/1472 Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal 
05/31/1656 Marin Marias, composer 
05/31/1664 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal 
05/31/1674 Friedrich Erhard Niedt, composer 
05/31/1701 Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible 
05/31/1753 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader 
05/31/1802 Cesare Pugni, composer 
05/31/1804 Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer 
05/31/1810 Horatio Seymour, Gov (Union), died in 1886 
05/31/1817 Edouard Deldevez, composer 
05/31/1818 John Albion Andrew, Gov (Union), died in 1867 
05/31/1819 Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass) 
05/31/1837 Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror) 
05/31/1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864

05/31/1837 William Henry Fitzhugh 'Rooney' Lee, Major General (Confederate Army

05/31/1838 Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University) 
05/31/1857 Pius XI, [Ambrogio DA Ratti], Italy, 259th Pope (1922-39) 
05/31/1860 Walter Richard Sickert, Danish/English painter (The Miner) 
05/31/1863 Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer 
05/31/1864 Albert J M Bakker, actor (Teun the night watch) 
05/31/1866 Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer 
05/31/1872 Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun) 
05/31/1872 William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote

05/31/1875 Italo Montemezzi, composer 
05/31/1879 Mark Hambourg, composer 
05/31/1887 Gunnar Olof Bj”rling, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Vilande Day) 
05/31/1887 Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960) 
05/31/1888 Jack Holt, US, golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimston

05/31/1889 Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink) 
05/31/1892 Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader 
05/31/1892 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Bespokojnaja Joenostj) 
05/31/1892 Louis Fourestier, composer 
05/31/1892 Willem Ravelli, baritone singer 
05/31/1894 Fred Allen, [John Sullivan], radio comedian (Fred Allen Show) 
05/31/1897 Margalo Gillmore, London, actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society) 
05/31/1898 Johan Brouwer, pianist/writer/resistance fighter 
05/31/1898 Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking) 
05/31/1900 Helma Wolf-Catz, author 
05/31/1902 Billy Mayerl, composer 
05/31/1902 Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor/conductor 
05/31/1902 Ralph Walter Wood, composer 
05/31/1908 Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places) 
05/31/1909 Thor Thorvaldsen, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) 
05/31/1912 Barbara Pepper, NYC, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Rogue Tavern

05/31/1912 Henry M 'Scoop' Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash) 
05/31/1912 Martin Schwarzschild, US astronomer (evolution) 
05/31/1914 Akira Ifukube, composer 
05/31/1916 Bert Hanstra, Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare) 
05/31/1916 Judy Campbell, actress (Convoy, Bonnie Prince Charlie) 
05/31/1920 Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles) 
05/31/1921 Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress (Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man) 
05/31/1921 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X) 
05/31/1922 Denholm Elliott, actor (Alfie, Cuba, Doll's House, King Rat) 
05/31/1922 Elisabeth, arch duchess of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein 
05/31/1923 Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1949-  ) 
05/31/1923 Wolfgang Lesser, composer 
05/31/1928 Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard) 
05/31/1929 Aladar Zoltan, composer 
05/31/1929 Elaine Stewart, actress (Take the High Ground) 
05/31/1930 Clint Eastwood, SF Calif, actor (Dirty Harry), mayor (Carmel, Calif)

05/31/1931 John Schrieffer, US physicist (Nobel 1972) 
05/31/1931 Shirley Verrett, New Orleans, mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens) 
05/31/1931 Steve Horn, (Rep-R-California) 
05/31/1934 Bent Peter Rasch, Denmark, canoe (Olympic-gold-1952) 
05/31/1934 Jim Hutton, Binghamton NY, actor (Ellery Queen) 
05/31/1934 Karl-Erik Welin, composer 
05/31/1938 Peter Yarrow, NYC, (Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon) 
05/31/1939 Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage 
05/31/1941 Johnny Paycheck, country singer (Take This Job & Shove It) 
05/31/1941 Kenneth Cooper, NYC, harpsichordist/professor (Barnard, Bkln) 
05/31/1942 Happy Hairston, NBA star (Cin, Detroit, LA) 
05/31/1943 Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl) 
05/31/1943 Sharon Gless, LA Calif, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey) 
05/31/1944 Mick Ralphs, guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company) 
05/31/1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German play director 
05/31/1947 John Bonham, entertainer 
05/31/1948 Duncan L Hunter, (Rep-R-CA, 1981-  ) 
05/31/1948 John 'Bonzo' Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven) 
05/31/1948 Rhea Perlman, Bkln NY, actress (Carla-Cheers, Zena-Taxi) 
05/31/1949 Steven Kampmann, Phila, actor (Kirk-Newhart) 
05/31/1950 Gregory Harrison, Catalina Calif, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run) 
05/31/1950 Tom Berenger, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me) 
05/31/1956 Bart van Poppel, Dutch bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine) 
05/31/1958 Mkhuseli Jack, South African UDF-leader (consumer boycots) 
05/31/1960 Chris Elliot, actor/comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show) 
05/31/1960 Norm Johnson, NFL placekicker (Seattle Seahawk) 
05/31/1961 Harry Enfield, comedian 
05/31/1961 Lea Thompson, actress (Casual Sex, Howard the Duck, Space Camp) 
05/31/1963 Wendy Smith, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good) 
05/31/1964 Scotti Hill, Manhasset NY, rock guitarist (Skid Row-Psycho Love) 
05/31/1965 Brooke Shields, NYC, model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Endless Love) 
05/31/1967 Sandrine Bonnaire, Clermont France, actress (Vagabond, Police) 
05/31/1971 Sarah O'Hare, model (Cosmopolitan-Jan 1994) 
05/31/1990 Liberty Irene Kasem, daughter of Casey & Jean Kasam 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/31/ 455 Petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched 
05/31/1091 Hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91), dies 
05/31/1504 Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies 
05/31/1551 Aristotele 'Basiano' da Sangallo, Italian set designer, dies 
05/31/1567 P‚reguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies 
05/31/1594 Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75 
05/31/1620 Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59 
05/31/1665 Pieter J Saenredam, architect, dies at 67 
05/31/1696 Heinrich Schwemmer, composer, dies at 75 
05/31/1740 Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51 
05/31/1806 Micha‰l FB Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general, dies 
05/31/1809 Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel, dies in battle at 33 
05/31/1809 Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies at 76 
05/31/1832 variste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at 20 
05/31/1849 L‚onard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 69 
05/31/1854 Vatroslav Lisinski, composer, dies at 34 
05/31/1862 Robert Hatton, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 34 
05/31/1900 James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1871-75), dies at 75 
05/31/1900 John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle 
05/31/1906 Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56 
05/31/1906 King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid 
05/31/1906 Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid 
05/31/1910 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89 
05/31/1916 Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle 
05/31/1928 Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85 
05/31/1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinat

05/31/1947 Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39 
05/31/1947 Henri G Casadesus, Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 6

05/31/1948 Jose Vianna da Motta, composer, dies at 80 
05/31/1952 Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies 
05/31/1955 'Wild Bill' Vukovich, killed in Indy 500 
05/31/1955 Raoul Gunsbourg, composer, dies at 95 
05/31/1960 Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 7

05/31/1962 Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56

05/31/1962 Eduardo Toldra, composer, dies at 67 
05/31/1963 Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art critic of Rome), dies at 63 
05/31/1971 Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist, dies at 78 
05/31/1973 Albert Egges van Giffen, archaeologist, dies at 89 
05/31/1974 Adelle Davis, US nutrionalist (Let's stay healthy), dies at 70 
05/31/1976 Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies 
05/31/1976 Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell, dies in NY at 

05/31/1983 Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 87 
05/31/1987 Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies 
05/31/1989 Charles A Hufnagel, doc (artificial heart valve pioneer), dies at 72

05/31/1989 Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondant, dies at 53 of cancer 
05/31/1991 Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies 
05/31/1991 H N 'Swanie' Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke 
05/31/1992 Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dies at 52 
05/31/1993 John Granger, actor (Advise & Consent), dies 
05/31/1994 Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/31/  70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem 
05/31/1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen 
05/31/1531 'Women's Revolt' in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted 
05/31/1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony 
05/31/1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius 
05/31/1744 French troops conquer Kortrijk 
05/31/1790 US copyright law enacted 
05/31/1821 1st catholic minster of US initiated in Baltimore Md 
05/31/1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape the Good Hope 
05/31/1837 NY's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in US 
05/31/1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens 
05/31/1849 last edition of Orange sheet 'Journal de La Haye' 
05/31/1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance 
05/31/1861 Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line 
05/31/1861 Mint at New Orleans closes 
05/31/1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks) 
05/31/1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky 
05/31/1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) 
05/31/1878 German battleship Grosser Kurfrst sinks, 284 killed 
05/31/1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition 
05/31/1879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors 
05/31/1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar 
05/31/1884 John Kellogg patents 'flaked cereal' 
05/31/1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn 
05/31/1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begans 
05/31/1899 -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails 
05/31/1899 Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park 
05/31/1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg 
05/31/1900 Piet de Law captures Lt-Col Spragges Irish Yeomanry 
05/31/1900 US troops arrive in Peking, help put down Boxer Rebellion 
05/31/1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transva

05/31/1906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid 
05/31/1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)

05/31/1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC) 
05/31/1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa 
05/31/1910 Union of South Africa declares independence from UK 
05/31/1912 US marines land on Cuba 
05/31/1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified 
05/31/1914 Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1 
05/31/1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London 
05/31/1916 Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)

05/31/1916 British battlecruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 
05/31/1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 
05/31/1918 M Wolf discovers asteroids #892 Seeligeria & #893 Leopoldina 
05/31/1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlanti

05/31/1921 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 
05/31/1923 China & USSR exchange diplomats 
05/31/1926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo flees after coup 
05/31/1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia 
05/31/1927 Ford Motor Company produces last 'Tin Lizzie' 
05/31/1927 Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play 
05/31/1928 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland 
05/31/1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens 
05/31/1929 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1108 Demeter 
05/31/1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium 
05/31/1935 Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat 
05/31/1935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan 
05/31/1937 Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak 
05/31/1937 German battleships bomb Almeria Spain 
05/31/1938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1466 Mundleria 
05/31/1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 
05/31/1941 -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record) 
05/31/1941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools 
05/31/1942 Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament 
05/31/1947 Communists grab power in Hungary 
05/31/1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53 
05/31/1947 Italian govt of Gasperi forms 
05/31/1949 Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament 
05/31/1950 Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins 
05/31/1951 Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord 
05/31/1951 S Arend discovers asteroid #1591 Baize 
05/31/1953 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government 
05/31/1953 WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast 
05/31/1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities 
05/31/1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike 
05/31/1955 Supreme Court orders school integration 'with all deliberate speed' 
05/31/1956 Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof 
05/31/1958 Dick Dale invents 'surf music' with 'Let's Go Trippin' 
05/31/1961 Dominican Republic president Trujillo assassinated 
05/31/1961 JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris 
05/31/1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrat

05/31/1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth 
05/31/1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim 
05/31/1964 SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins

05/31/1965 Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy 
05/31/1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono record 'Give Peace a Chance' 
05/31/1969 Stevie Wonder releases 'My Cherie Amore' 
05/31/1970 7.75 Earthquake aftershocks hit Peru; 50-70,000 die 
05/31/1970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by earthquake (50-70,000 die) 
05/31/1970 KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting 
05/31/1971 WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasti

05/31/1972 Ajax wins Europe Cup in Rotterdam 
05/31/1974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights 
05/31/1975 Fred Newman made 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition 
05/31/1976 Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London 
05/31/1977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes Heir Apparent to throne of Qatar 
05/31/1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed 
05/31/1979 J Kveton discovers asteroid #2672 Pisek 
05/31/1979 Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens 
05/31/1979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence 
05/31/1980 Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich 
05/31/1983 Phila 76ers sweep Lakers for NBA championship in 4 games 
05/31/1985 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88 
05/31/1985 Guatemala adopts constitution 
05/31/1985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000 
05/31/1987 Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup 
05/31/1987 Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska 
05/31/1989 'Rambling with Gambling' 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC) 
05/31/1989 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards 
05/31/1989 Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns 
05/31/1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce 
05/31/1991 Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia

05/31/1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war 
05/31/1993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees 
  
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