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May 31 is the 151st day of the year ... 1922 – Denholm Elliott, English-Spanish actor (d. 1992) 1923 – Ellsworth Kelly, American painter and sculptor (d. 2015)
May 31: World No Tobacco Day; Feast of the Visitation (Catholicism and Anglicanism) Mark Felt 1293 – Majapahit forces under Raden Wijaya won a major victory in the Mongol invasion of Java , now considered to be the founding date of the Indonesian city of Surabaya .
1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher. 1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968 , observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the ...
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Jane Joseph (1894–1929) was an English composer, arranger and teacher of music, whose potential was noticed by the composer Gustav Holst when he taught her composition at St Paul's Girls' School. She acted as his amanuensis from 1914, when he was composing The Planets , and thereafter assisted him with transcriptions, arrangements and ...
After two months of fierce fighting, a large English night attack on the French camp inflicted a heavy defeat and the French withdrew. Guînes was incorporated into the Pale of Calais . The threat posed by this enclave caused the French to garrison 60 fortified positions around it, at ruinous expense.
1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys recorded his last entry in his diary, one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. refimprove section 1889 – The South Fork Dam near Johnstown, Pennsylvania , failed, unleashing a torrent of 18.1 million cubic meters ( 4.8 billion gallons) of water that killed over ...
May 31: World No Tobacco Day; Pentecost (Eastern Christianity, 2015); Feast of the Visitation (Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism); Mother's Day in Algeria, France, Morocco and Sweden (2015) 1223 – Mongol invasions : Mongol forces defeated a combined army of Kiev , Galich , and the Cumans at the Kalchik River in present-day Ukraine.