Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 31
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, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
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Corpus Christi (various Western Christian churches, 2018);
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| ; Mother's Day in Algeria, France, Morocco and Sweden (2015) | refimprove |
Egypt .
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English Restoration period.
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| 1889 – The South Fork Dam near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, failed, unleashing a torrent of 18.1 million cubic meters (4.8 billion gallons) of water that killed over 2,200 people. | refimprove section |
| 1910 – The previously separate colonies of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State united to form the Union of South Africa, exactly 51 years before it became the Republic of South Africa. | refimprove section |
Kaiserliche Marine and British Royal Navy clashed in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the First World War .
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| 1970 – The Ancash earthquake devastated various coastal towns in Peru and resulted in a massive avalanche on the north side of Nevado Huascarán, burying the town of Yungay. | refimprove |
| 2010 – During an attempt to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Navy engaged in armed conflict with the crew of the MV Mavi Marmara, resulting in nine civilian deaths. | Raid: expansion; Mavi Marmara: lead too short |
Eligible
- 1223 – Mongol invasions: Mongol forces defeated a combined army of Kiev, Galich, and the Cumans at the Kalchik River in present-day Ukraine.
- Committee of Safety of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves
- 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G. W. Smith engaged Union forces under George B. McClellan at the Battle of Seven Pines outside Richmond, Virginia.
- 1879 – Gilmore's Garden in New York City was renamed Madison Square Garden, the city's first venue to use that name.
- Greenwood District, was destroyed by fire.
- 1935 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 Mw struck Balochistan in the British Raj, now part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
- 1981 – An organized mob of police and government-sponsored paramilitias began burning the public library in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, destroying over 97,000 items in one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the 20th century.
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- Born this day: Albertino Mussato (d. 1329) · Walt Whitman (b. 1819) · Chien-Shiung Wu (b. 1912) · Clint Eastwood (b. 1930)
- 1795 – French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal, a court instituted by the National Convention for the trial of political offenders, was suppressed.
- 1902 – The Second Boer War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging.
- Faisal II.
- secret informant known as "Deep Throat", who provided information about the Watergate scandal, was former FBI Associate Director Mark Felt.
Nur Jahan (b. 1577) · Jane Joseph (b. 1894) · Timothy Leary (d. 1996)