May 31 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for May 31
In the headlines today:

2000	Latin jazz musician and bandleader Tito Puente dies in New York at age 77.
1991	Angola's 16-year-old civil war ends.
1977	Construction of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline is completed.
1962	Convicted Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel.
1961	South Africa gains its independence.
1926	The Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia.
1917	Indiana adopts its state flag.
1910	The Union of South Africa is established.
1907	The first taxi cabs in the US go into service in New York City.
1902	The Boer War ends.
1889	2,300 people die when floodwaters cause the Connemaugh River Dam to break, flooding the town of Johnstown, PA.
1809	Composer Franz Joseph Haydn dies in Vienna at age 77.

Born today:

1977 Scott Klopfenstein - trumpeter (Reel Big Fish)

1965 Brooke Shields - actress, model

1964 DMC - rapper (Run-DMC)

1961 Lea Thompson - actress

1952 Jean Lemieux - hockey player

1950 Tom Berenger - actor

1950 Gregory Harrison - actor

1943 Joe Namath - football quarterback, Hall of Famer

1943 Sharon Gless - actress

1942 Happy Hairston - basketball player

1941 Johnny Paycheck - country singer

1940 Augie Meyers - keyboardist (Texas Tornados)

1938 Peter Yarrow - folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)

1930 Clint Eastwood - actor; mayor of Carmel, California

1923 Prince Rainer III - ruler of Monaco, husband of actress Grace Kelly

1923 Ellsworth Kelly - artist

1922 Denholm Elliott - actor

1920 Edward Bennett Williams - Baltimore Orioles owner

1908 Don Ameche - actor (Oscar® winner, 1985)

1898 Norman Vincent Peale - evangelist, author

1894 Fred Allen - comedian, radio host

1857 Pope Pius XI - 259th Roman Catholic Pope

1819 Walt Whitman - poet

Born today? Your sign of the Zodiac is:

Gemini

(The Twins)