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On May 31 in history1417 - Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen 1495 - Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League 1531 - "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted 1564 - Battle on Gotland: L乥eck & Denmark beat Sweden 1621 - Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night 1634 - US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony 1659 - Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague 1665 - Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah 1678 - Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes 1696 - John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius 1727 - France, England & Netherlands sign accord of Paris 1744 - French troops conquer Kortrijk 1790 - US copyright law enacted 1821 - Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore 1836 - HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope 1837 - Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria 1847 - Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens 1849 - Last edition of Orange sheet "Journal de La Haye" 1853 - Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance 1859 - Phila A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later 1861 - Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line 1861 - Mint at New Orleans closes 1862 - Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks) 1864 - Raid at Morgan's Kentucky 1868 - 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio 1868 - Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris 1870 - Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) 1870 - E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement 1878 - German battleship Grosser Kurf乺st sinks, 284 killed 1878 - US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation 1879 - 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition 1879 - Madison Square Garden opens 1880 - League of American Wheelmen (1st US bicycle assn), forms in Newport RI 1883 - French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar 1884 - Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" 1889 - Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn 1891 - Work on trans-Siberian railway begins 1899 - -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails 1899 - Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park 1900 - British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg 1900 - Piet de Law captures Lt-Col Spragges Irish Yeomanry 1900 - Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074) 1900 - US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion 1902 - Australia Cricket all out 36 v England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever 1902 - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal 1905 - Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger 1906 - Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid 1907 - Taxis 1st began running in NYC 1908 - Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium) 1909 - 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC) 1910 - Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa 1910 - Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC 1910 - Union of South Africa declares independence from UK 1912 - US marines land on Cuba 1913 - 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified 1913 - Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6) 1914 - Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1 1915 - An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London 1916 - Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead) 1916 - British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 1917 - 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1919 - 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas) 1919 - NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic 1921 - Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 1923 - China & USSR exchange diplomats 1926 - Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup 1926 - Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia 1927 - Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A) 1927 - Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play 1928 - 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland 1928 - Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season 1929 - Atlantic City Convention Center opens 1930 - Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season 1930 - Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium 1930 - Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth 1935 - Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat 1935 - Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan 1937 - 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University) 1937 - Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak 1937 - German battleships bomb Almeria Spain 1938 - Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's 1940 - Gen-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken 1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1941 - -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record) 1941 - 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale 1941 - 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton) 1941 - British troops vacate Kreta 1941 - German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools 1942 - 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City NJ 1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury 1943 - "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio 1943 - Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters 1944 - Allied breakthrough in Italy 1947 - 79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6 1947 - Communists grab power in Hungary 1947 - Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53 1947 - Italian govt of Gasperi forms 1948 - Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings) 1949 - 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA 1949 - Charley Lupica begins stay on 4? platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, & stays 117 days) 1950 - Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins 1950 - Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial 1951 - Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord 1953 - Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government 1953 - WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast 1955 - Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities 1955 - Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike 1955 - Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed" 1956 - Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof 1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) 1958 - Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin" 1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests) 1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open 1961 - Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern 1961 - Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens 1961 - JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris 1961 - Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate 1961 - Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth 1962 - "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV 1964 - Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim 1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open 1964 - SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins) 1965 - Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy 1967 - Bayern M乶chen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg 1969 - "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 132 perfs 1969 - "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8 1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" 1969 - Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore" 1970 - At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die) 1970 - KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1970 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open 1971 - WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 1972 - Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam 1973 - Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season 1974 - Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights 1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1975 - "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 104 performances 1975 - Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition 1976 - Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London 1977 - "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances 1977 - Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar 1977 - Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed 1979 - "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 108 performances 1979 - Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens 1979 - Zimbabwe proclaims independence 1980 - "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38 1980 - Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich 1981 - Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship 1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 63 perf 1983 - 37th NBA Championship: Phila 76ers sweep LA Lakers in 4 games 1984 - 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge 1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1984 - Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) v England, ODI cricket record 1985 - 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88 1985 - Guatemala adopts constitution 1985 - New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000 1985 - Tornados in Penn, Ohio, NY & Canada kill 88 & injured more than 1,000 1987 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic 1987 - Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska 1987 - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 3 1989 - "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC) 1989 - 1st International Rock Awards 1989 - 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards 1989 - Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns 1990 - 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne 1990 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie 1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce 1990 - Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles 1991 - Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia 1991 - Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war 1992 - 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa & Crazy For You win 1992 - 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000 1992 - Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic 1993 - President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees 1994 - Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates 1996 - Mark Van Thillo & Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures 1997 - "Once Upon a Matress," closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 187 perf 1997 - Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race 1998 - wins Wegmans Rochester Golf International |
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