31 Mey

The **31st o Mey** is the 151st day o the year (152nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 214 days ti come.

## Events

* 1669 - Samuel Pepys maks the last entry in his diary.
* 1859 - Big Ben chimes for the first time.
* 1889 - A flash flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvanie, kills 2,200 fowk.
* 1910 - Sooth Africae gains unthirldom.
* 1911 - The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast.
* 1916 - Warld War I: The Battle o Jutland is focht.
* 1935 - A magnitude 7.7 yirdquauk strikes Quetta in present-day Pakistan, killin 40,000 fowk.
* 1941 - Warld War II: Luftwaffe raid on Dublin.
* 1946 - A yirdquauk in Turkey kills 1,200 fowk.
* 1962 - Sooth Africae becomes a republic.
* 1962 - The 1962 FIFA Warld Cup in Chile stairts.
* 1970 - The 1970 FIFA Warld Cup in Mexico stairts.
* 1970 - A major yirdquauk strikes the Ancash region o Peru. A major landslide buries the toun o Yungay.
* 1977 - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline is completit.
* 1985 - 41 tornadoes hit Ohio, killin 77 fowk.
* 2002 - The 2002 FIFA Warld Cup in Japan an Sooth Korea stairts; first-time pairteecipants Senegal defeat the defendin champions Fraunce 1-0 in the openin gemme.
* 2005 - W. Mark Felt is revealed as "Deep Throat", a major figure in Watergate scandal that brocht doon US Preses Richard Nixon in 1974.
* 2010 - Israeli commandos storm a Turkis aid flotilla. 9 activists are kilt.
* 2010 - German Preses Horst Koehler demits efter creeticism o comments he made on German militar operations in Afghanistan; Christian Wulff replaces him a month later.
* 2017 - A bomb attack in central Kabul, Afghanistan, kills at least 150 fowk.
* 2018 - The discovery o dunes o methane gas on the dwarf planet Pluto is propaled.
* 2018 - US Preses Donald Trump imposes tarriffs on products frae the European Union, Canadae an Mexico.
* 2019 - 12 fowk are shot deed bi thair colleague at a muneecipal biggin in Virginia Beach; he is shot deed in an exchange wi polis arrivin on the scene.

## Births

* 1557 - Feodor I o Roushie (d. 1598)
* 1773 - Ludwig Tieck, German poet an novelist (d. 1853)
* 1819 - Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892)
* 1857 - Pape Pius XI (d. 1939)
* 1860 - Archibald Thorburn, Scots penter (d. 1935)
* 1887 - Saint-John Perse, French poet an diplomat (d. 1975)
* 1908 - Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)
* 1923 - Rainier III, Prince o Monaco (d. 2005)
* 1925 - Frei Otto, German airchitect (d. 2015)
* 1930 - Clint Eastwood, American actor an director
* 1931 - John Robert Schrieffer, American pheesicist (d. 2019)
* 1935 - Harry Melrose, Scots fitbawer
* 1938 - John Prescott, umwhile Deputy Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
* 1943 - Sharon Gless, American actress
* 1945 - Laurent Gbagbo, umwhile Preses o Ivory Coast
* 1945 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor an director (d. 1982)
* 1948 - Svetlana Alexievich, Belaroushie jurnalist an writer
* 1948 - Lynda Bellingham, Inglis actress (d. 2014)
* 1949 - Tom Berenger, American actor
* 1950 - Edgar Savisaar, Estonie politeecian
* 1953 - Stuart Kennedy, Scots fitbawer
* 1963 - Viktor Orban, Prime meenister o Hungary
* 1964 - Billy Davies, Scots fitbawer an coach
* 1965 - Brooke Shields, American model an actress
* 1976 - Colin Farrell, Erse actor
* 1978 - Robert Rinder, Inglis creeminal law advocate an telly personality
* 1989 - Marco Reus, German fitbawer

## Daiths
* 455 - Petronius Maximus, Roman Emperor (b. 396)
* 1594 - Tintoretto, Italian penter (b. 1518)
* 1740 - Frederick I o Proushie (b. 1688)
* 1809 - Joseph Haydn, Austrick componer (b. 1732)
* 1847 - Thomas Chalmers, Scots pastor, social reformer, eddicator, writer an scientist (b. 1780)
* 1962 - Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi offeecial (b. 1906)
* 2010 - Louise Bourgeois, French-American airtist an sculptor (b. 1911)
* 2017 - Tino Insana, American actor (b. 1948)

## Halidays
* Internaitional No Tobacco Day
* Castile-La Mancha Day