Subj : This Day In History
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From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Mon May 31 2021 12:05 am

 Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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                              By Scott Labrecque
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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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