May 31 is National Macaroon Day
Save Your Hearing Day
World No Tobacco Day
1279 BC – Ramses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) became Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
In 1578, Martin Frobisher sailed from Harwich in England to what is now called “Frobisher Bay”, a relatively large inlet of the Labrador Sea in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the southeastern corner of Baffin Island. Eventually Frobisher carried 200 tons of iron pyrite (fool’s gold) back to England on his second voyage and 1350 tons on his third. It was used to pave the streets in London.
1621 – Sir Francis Bacon was thrown into Tower of London for one night.
US colony Massachusetts Bay annexed Maine colony in 1634. Maine was a part of Massachusetts until 1820. One of the reasons that Maine was admitted as a state was because of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This agreement said that there should be an equal number of slave states and free states. When Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine was admitted as a free state to keep the balance even.
The Province of Pennsylvania banned all theater productions in 1759.
Birthday of Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819), American poet, famous for Leaves of Grass.
Madison Square Garden opened in New York on May 31, 1879. It was named after 4th President, James Madison.
Dr John Harvey Kellogg patented “flaked cereal” in 1884.
The RMS Titanic was launched in Belfast on May 31, 1911.
Otto Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel May 31, 1962. He was one of the organizers of the Holocaust. He facilitated and managed the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Eastern Europe.
May 31, 1977, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was completed.