May 31
Today is the 152nd day of 2016, there are 214 days left in the year.
1790 - The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps and other original materials.
1819 - Poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hill, New York.
1859 - The Big Ben clock tower in London went into operation.
1889 - More than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing though Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1911 - The hull of the Titanic was launched in Belfast. At the ceremony, a White Star Line employee claimed, "Not even God himself could sink this ship."
1913 - The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
1916 - British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark during World War I.
1935 - The movie studio 20th Century Fox was created through a merger of the Fox Film Corp. and Twentieth Century Pictures.
1961 - South Africa became an independent republic as it withdrew from the British Commonwealth.
1962 - Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Holocaust.
1970 - A powerful earthquake in Peru killed more than 50,000 people.
1977 - The Trans-Alaska oil pipeline was completed after three years of construction.
1990 - The sitcom Seinfeld premiered on NBC.
1991 - Leaders of Angola's two warring factions signed a peace treaty, ending a 16-year civil war.
1994 - The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
2003 - Eric Rudolph, suspected in bombings at a Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic and at the Atlanta Olympic Games, was arrested outside a grocery store in Murphy, North Carolina. (He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four life sentences.)
2004 - Alberta Martin, age 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81.
2005 - Former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat", the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
2009 - Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions, was shot and killed in a Wichita, Kansas church. (Gunman Scott Roeder was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)
Birthdays
24 - Caitlin Carver (actress)
25 - Azealia Banks (rapper)
25 - Farrah Abraham (reality star)
26 - Phillipa Soo (actress)
31 - Jordy Nelson (football player)
32 - Jason Smith (actor)
33 - Reggie Yates (actor)
39 - Eric Christian Olsen (actor)
40 - Colin Farrell (actor)
51 - Brooke Shields (actress)
53 - Hugh Dillon (actor)
54 - Corey Hart (singer)
55 - Lea Thompson (actress)
56 - Chris Elliott (actor)
73 - Joe Namath (football player)
86 - Clint Eastwood (actor/director)
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Today in Sports History - May 31
1879 - New York City's original Madison Square Garden opened.
1880 - The first U.S. national bicycle society was formed in Newport, RI. It was known as the League of American Wheelman.
1921 - Suffy McInnis began an errorless streak of 1,700 chances.
1927 - Johnny Neun of the Detroit Tigers recorded an unassisted triple play.
1937 - The Brooklyn Dodgers ended Carl Hubbell's (New York Giants) 24 game winning streak.
1948 - Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings).
1949 - Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform atop a 60-foot pole, vowing to stay until Cleveland Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later.)
1965 - Jim Clark becomes first foreigner in 49 years to win Indianapolis 500 car race.
1983 - The Philadelphia 76ers sweep the Los Angeles Lakers to win the NBA championship.
1987 - The Edmonton Oilers defeat the Philadelphia Flyers in seven games for the Stanley Cup.
1994 - The San Diego Padres plate 13 runs in the second inning of a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1996 - FIFA decides to give the FIFA World Cup 2002 to Japan and South Korea, becoming the first World Cup with co-host countries in the history of the event, as well as the first World Cup in Asia.
2008 - Usain Bolt of Jamaica set a world record of 9.72 seconds in the 100 meter dash at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York.
Today is the 152nd day of 2016, there are 214 days left in the year.
1790 - The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps and other original materials.
1819 - Poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hill, New York.
1859 - The Big Ben clock tower in London went into operation.
1889 - More than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing though Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1911 - The hull of the Titanic was launched in Belfast. At the ceremony, a White Star Line employee claimed, "Not even God himself could sink this ship."
1913 - The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
1916 - British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark during World War I.
1935 - The movie studio 20th Century Fox was created through a merger of the Fox Film Corp. and Twentieth Century Pictures.
1961 - South Africa became an independent republic as it withdrew from the British Commonwealth.
1962 - Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Holocaust.
1970 - A powerful earthquake in Peru killed more than 50,000 people.
1977 - The Trans-Alaska oil pipeline was completed after three years of construction.
1990 - The sitcom Seinfeld premiered on NBC.
1991 - Leaders of Angola's two warring factions signed a peace treaty, ending a 16-year civil war.
1994 - The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
2003 - Eric Rudolph, suspected in bombings at a Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic and at the Atlanta Olympic Games, was arrested outside a grocery store in Murphy, North Carolina. (He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four life sentences.)
2004 - Alberta Martin, age 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81.
2005 - Former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat", the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
2009 - Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions, was shot and killed in a Wichita, Kansas church. (Gunman Scott Roeder was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)
Birthdays
24 - Caitlin Carver (actress)
25 - Azealia Banks (rapper)
25 - Farrah Abraham (reality star)
26 - Phillipa Soo (actress)
31 - Jordy Nelson (football player)
32 - Jason Smith (actor)
33 - Reggie Yates (actor)
39 - Eric Christian Olsen (actor)
40 - Colin Farrell (actor)
51 - Brooke Shields (actress)
53 - Hugh Dillon (actor)
54 - Corey Hart (singer)
55 - Lea Thompson (actress)
56 - Chris Elliott (actor)
73 - Joe Namath (football player)
86 - Clint Eastwood (actor/director)
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Today in Sports History - May 31
1879 - New York City's original Madison Square Garden opened.
1880 - The first U.S. national bicycle society was formed in Newport, RI. It was known as the League of American Wheelman.
1921 - Suffy McInnis began an errorless streak of 1,700 chances.
1927 - Johnny Neun of the Detroit Tigers recorded an unassisted triple play.
1937 - The Brooklyn Dodgers ended Carl Hubbell's (New York Giants) 24 game winning streak.
1948 - Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings).
1949 - Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform atop a 60-foot pole, vowing to stay until Cleveland Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later.)
1965 - Jim Clark becomes first foreigner in 49 years to win Indianapolis 500 car race.
1983 - The Philadelphia 76ers sweep the Los Angeles Lakers to win the NBA championship.
1987 - The Edmonton Oilers defeat the Philadelphia Flyers in seven games for the Stanley Cup.
1994 - The San Diego Padres plate 13 runs in the second inning of a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1996 - FIFA decides to give the FIFA World Cup 2002 to Japan and South Korea, becoming the first World Cup with co-host countries in the history of the event, as well as the first World Cup in Asia.
2008 - Usain Bolt of Jamaica set a world record of 9.72 seconds in the 100 meter dash at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York.
