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May 31 is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 214 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 455 ...
This is a list of selected May 31 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, ...
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 first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
May 31: World No Tobacco Day; Feast of the Visitation (Catholicism and Anglicanism); Memorial Day in the United States (2021) Revolutionary Tribunal 1795 – French Revolution : The Revolutionary Tribunal (depicted) , a court instituted by the National Convention for the trial of political offenders, was suppressed.
May 31: World No Tobacco Day Bessarion 455 – Petronius Maximus , ruler of the Western Roman Empire , was stoned to death by a mob as he fled Rome ahead of the arrival of a Vandal force that sacked the city .
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 .
1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1131); 1443 - Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509); 1819 - Walt Whitman, (pictured) American poet (d.
Disasters and accidents At least 17 army personnel are killed in a fire in an ammunitions depot in the Indian town of Pulgaon, Maharashtra. (The New York Times) (NDTV) (AFP via ABC News Australia) A five-storey apartment block collapses in Russian city of Mezhdurechensk, killing one man and injuring three. (RT) Law and crime The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rules (12-3) a warrant is ...