Sunday, May 31, 2015

History for May 31

History for May 31 - On-This-Day.com
Walt Whitman 1819 - Poet, essayist, journalist, humanist, Norman Vincent Peale 1898, Clint Eastwood 1930 - Actor ("Pale Rider") 


Peter Yarrow 1938 - Musician (Peter, Paul and Mary), Joe Namath 1943 - Football player, Tom Berenger 1950 - Actor ("The Big Chill," "Platoon") 


Chris Elliot 1960 - Comedian, Brooke Shields 1965 - Actress, Colin Farrell 1976 - Actor 


1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by the U.S. Congress. 


1859 - In London, Big Ben went into operation. 


1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented "flaked cereal."
 

1900 - U.S. troops arrived in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion. 


1902 - The Boer War ended between the Boers of South Africa and Great Britain with the Treaty of Vereeniging. 


1907 - The first taxis arrived in New York City. They were the first in the United States


1913 - The 17th Amendment went into effect. It provided for popular election of U.S. senators. 


1915 - A German zeppelin made an air raid on London. 


1962 - Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. Eichmann was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in the Nazi Holocaust. 


1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was finished after 3 years of construction. 


1979 - Zimbabwe proclaimed its independence. 

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