UN
Day
World
No-Tobacco Day
Events
of the day
1279 BC β Rameses II (The
Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of
Ancient Egypt.
455 β Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned
to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
526 β A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch,
Turkey, killing 250,000.
1223 β Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle
of the Kalka River β Mongol armies of Genghis
Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and
Cumans.
1578 β Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich,
England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually
to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets
in London.
1578 β King Henry III lays the first stone
of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest
bridge of Paris.
1669 β Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys
records the last event in his diary.
1678 β The Godiva procession through Coventry
begins.
1775 β American Revolution: The Mecklenburg
Resolutions are allegedly adopted in the
Province of North Carolina.
1790 β Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the
Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1790 β The United States enacts its first
copyright statute, the Copyright Act of
1790.
1790 β French Revolution: the Revolutionary
Tribunal is suppressed.
1805 β French and Spanish forces begin the
assault against British forces occupying
Diamond Rock
1813 β In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and
Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively
marking the end of a route across the Blue
Mountains.
1854 β The civil death procedure is abolished
in France.
1859 β The clock tower at the Houses of
Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts
keeping time.
1862 β American Civil War Peninsula Campaign:
Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair
Oaks) β Confederate forces under Joseph
E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engage Union
forces under George B. McClellan outside
Richmond, Virginia.
1864 β American Civil War Overland Campaign:
Battle of Cold Harbor β The Army of Northern
Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the
Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant
& George G. Meade.
1866 β 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.
1884 β Arrival at Plymouth of Tawhiao, King
of Maoris, to claim protection of Queen
Victoria
1889 β Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people
die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter)
wall of water over the town of Johnstown,
Pennsylvania.
1902 β Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging
ends the war and ensures British control
of South Africa.
1909 β The National Negro Committee, forerunner
to the NAACP, convenes for the first time.
1910 β Creation of the Union of South Africa.
1911 β The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic
is launched.
1911 β President of Mexico Porfirio DΓaz
flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
1916 β World War I: Battle of Jutland β
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.
1921 β 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.
1924 β The Soviet Union signs an agreement
with the Peking government, referring to
Outer Mongolia as an "integral part
of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty"
therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.
1927 β The last Ford Model T rolls off the
assembly line after a production run of
15,007,003 vehicles.
1929 β The first talking cartoon of Mickey
Mouse, "The Karnival Kid", is
released.
1935 β A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta
in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
1941 β A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland,
claims 38 lives.
1941 β Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom
completes the re-occupation of Iraq and
returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent
for Faisal II.
1942 β World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy
midget submarines begin a series of attacks
on Sydney, Australia.
1961 β The Union of South Africa becomes
the Republic of South Africa.
1961 β In Moscow City Court, the RokotovβFaibishenko
show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev
Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet
society.
1962 β The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1962 β Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1970 β The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide
that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more
than 47,000 people are killed.
1971 β 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.
1973 β The United States Senate votes to
cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer
Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening
the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1977 β The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
completed.
1981 β Burning of Jaffna library, Sri Lanka,
It is one of the violent examples of ethnic
biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
1985 β 1985 United States-Canadian tornado
outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving
76 dead.
1991 β Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out
a transition to multi-party democracy under
the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM
II mission.
2005 β Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt
was Deep Throat.
2009 β Anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder
shoots and kills physician George Tiller
during church services in Wichita, Kansas.
2010 β 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.
Holidays
and observances
Anniversary
of Royal Brunei Malay Regiment (Brunei)
CastileβLa Mancha Day (CastileβLa Mancha)
Christian Feast Day:
Petronella
Hermias
May 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Visitation of Mary (Western Christianity)
World No Tobacco Day (International)
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