| Date | Weekday | Event |
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| May 31, 1433 | Friday | Joan of Arc has a hot time at stake |
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| May 31, 1678 | Tuesday | Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry |
| May 31, 1809 | Wednesday | Composer Franz Josef Hayden died in Vienna Austria |
| May 31, 1854 | Wednesday | Kansas Territory established |
| May 31, 1862 | Saturday | Battle of Fair Oaks - Va; North defeats South |
| May 31, 1868 | Sunday | 1st recorded bicycle race - 2 kilometers in Paris |
| May 31, 1879 | Saturday | 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition |
| May 31, 1879 | Saturday | Madison Square Garden opens its doors |
| May 31, 1889 | Friday | Johnstown Flood; 2 -000 die in Penn |
| May 31, 1900 | Thursday | US troops arrive in Peking - help put down Boxer Rebellion |
| May 31, 1910 | Tuesday | Union of South Africa formed |
| May 31, 1913 | Saturday | 17th amendment providing popular election of senators |
| May 31, 1916 | Wednesday | During WW I British & German fleets fought Battle of Jutland |
| May 31, 1955 | Tuesday | Construction begins on cosmodrome launch facilities |
| May 31, 1956 | Thursday | Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof |
| May 31, 1961 | Wednesday | South Africa becomes a republic (Natl Day) |
| May 31, 1962 | Thursday | WW II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann hung in Israel |
| May 31, 1970 | Sunday | Tens of thousands in Peru die in an earthquake |
| May 31, 1974 | Friday | Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights |
| May 31, 1976 | Monday | Martha Mitchell wife of former Att General John Mitchell dies in NY |