Friday May 31, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

May 31: Day of the Week

May 31, 2024 is the 152nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 214 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.

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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

May 31 Historical Event(s)

1578
Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool’s gold, used to pave streets in London.
1790
French Revolution: the Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
1813
In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1864
American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant & George G. Meade.
1916
World War I: Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
1927
The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1942
World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
1962
Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1977
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
1981
Burning of Jaffna library, Sri Lanka, It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.

Who were born on May 31?

1879
Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian operatic soprano (d. 1952)
1892
Erich Neumann, German Nazi politician (d. 1951)
1908
Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (d. 2000)
1945
Bernard Goldberg‎, American journalist
1947
Junior Campbell, British musician and songwriter (The Marmalade)
1960
Chris Elliott, American comedian
1963
Hugh Dillon, Canadian musician and actor
1965
Brooke Shields, American actress and supermodel
1967
Phil Keoghan, New Zealand television personality
1981
Mikael Antonsson, Swedish footballer

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