Historical Events In May - 31
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances
1977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
1979 Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
1979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence
1980 "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38
1980 Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich
1984 57th National Spelling Bee Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Viv Richards hits 189 (170 balls) vs England, ODI cricket record
1985 41 Tornados in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York & Canada kill 88 & injure more than 1,000
1985 Guatemala adopts constitution
1985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
1989 First International Rock Awards
1989 Speaker of the House Jim Wright resigns
1990 63rd National Spelling Bee Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
1990 Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles
1991 Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
1992 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000
1993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
1996 Mark Van Thillo & Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures
1900 Boxer rebellion in China
1902 The Boer war, in South Africa, ends
1961 South Africa becomes an independent republic
1990 Soviet Legislature televised for the first time
1930 The birth of Clint Eastwood, American film actor/director
2005 W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be Deep Throat.
2007 Valdis Zatlers is elected President of Latvia, defeating Aivars Endzinš in the Latvian presidential election.
2007 A calendar blue moon occurred in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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