Monday, May 31, 2021

History for May 31

History for May 31 - On-This-Day.com
Clint Eastwood 1930 - Actor ("Pale Rider")
  • 1870 - E.J. DeSemdt patented asphalt.
  • 1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented "flaked cereal."
  • 1900 - U.S. troops arrived in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion.
  • 1913 - The 17th Amendment went into effect. It provided for popular election of U.S. senators.
  • 1955 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered that all states must end racial segregation "with all deliberate speed."
  • 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.
  • 1995 - Bob Dole singled out Time Warner for "the marketing of evil" in movies and music. Dole later admitted that he had not seen or heard much of what he had been criticizing.(one does NOT need to see everything in movies and music to know that filth dominates.)

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