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Johnstown flood debris
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Faisal II of Iraq (age 5)
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Ulm Minster
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MV Mavi Marmara
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Mark Felt
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Statue of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel
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Samuel Pepys
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'Abd al-Ilah
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Revolutionary Tribunal
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| ; Mother's Day in Algeria, France, Morocco and Sweden (2015) | refimprove |
| 1279 BC – Ramesses II became Pharaoh of Egypt. | refimprove section |
| 1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys recorded his last entry in his diary, one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. | refimprove section |
| 1889 – The South Fork Dam near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, failed, unleashing a torrent of 18.1 million cubic meters (4.8 billion gallons) of water that killed over 2,200 people. | refimprove section |
| 1910 – The South Africa Act came into force, uniting four colonies into the Union of South Africa, exactly 51 years before it became the Republic of South Africa. | Act: unreferenced section; Union: refimprove section |
| 1916 – The German High Seas Fleet and British Grand Fleet clashed in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the First World War. | refimprove section |
| 1970 – The Ancash earthquake devastated various coastal towns in Peru and resulted in a massive avalanche on the north side of Nevado Huascarán, burying the town of Yungay. | refimprove |
| 2010 – During an attempt to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Navy engaged in armed conflict with the crew of the Template:MV, resulting in nine civilian deaths. | Raid: neutrality issues, expansion; Mavi Marmara: multiple issues |
| ; Feast of the Visitation (Catholicism and Anglicanism) | Undercited |
| * 1961 – The Union of South Africa was dissolved by the Constitution Act and replaced by the Republic of South Africa. | Undercited |
| * 1795 – French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal, a court instituted by the National Convention for the trial of political offenders, was suppressed. | Too much uncited |
| * 1921 – The Tulsa race massacre, "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history", began in Tulsa, Oklahoma. | Tagged for citations |
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- 1215 — A Mongol army under Genghis Khan captures Zhongdu (modern Beijing), the capital of the Jin dynasty.
- 1293 – Majapahit forces under Raden Wijaya won a major victory in the Mongol invasion of Java, now considered to be the founding date of the Indonesian city of Surabaya.
- 1775 – American Revolution: The Committee of Safety of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves, which annulled and vacated all laws originating from the authority of the King or Parliament.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops under Joseph E. Johnston and G. W. Smith engaged Union forces under George B. McClellan at the Battle of Seven Pines outside Richmond, Virginia.
- 1890 – The Ulm Minster, the world's tallest church building, is completed in Ulm, Germany.
- 1902 – The Second Boer War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging in Pretoria, South Africa.
- 1941 - German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging the residence of the President of Ireland.
- 1941 – The United Kingdom completed its re-occupation of Iraq, returning Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
- 1981 – An organized mob of police and government-sponsored Sinhalese paramilitary forces began three days of attacks that led to the burning of the Jaffna Library in Sri Lanka.
- 2005 – A Vanity Fair article revealed that the secret informant known as "Deep Throat", who had provided information about the Watergate scandal, was former FBI associate director Mark Felt (pictured).
- 2009 – American physician George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions, was shot and killed by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activist.
- Born/died: | Géza II of Hungary |d|1162| Nur Jahan |b|1577| Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud |b|1753| Walt Whitman |b|1819|| Kusumoto Ine |b|1827| Walter Sickert |b|1860| Rosa May Billinghurst |b|1875| Chien-Shiung Wu |b|1912| Bernard Lewis |b|1916| Jørgen Jensen |d|1922 Clint Eastwood |b|1930| VanossGaming |b|1992| Timothy Leary |d|1996| Derek Hodge |d|2011| Jan Crouch |d|2016| Carla Lane |d|2016
May 31: Dragon Boat Festival in China and Taiwan (2025); World No Tobacco Day Template:Main page image/OTD
- 455 – Petronius Maximus, the ruler of the Western Roman Empire, was stoned to death by a mob as he fled Rome ahead of the arrival of a Vandal force that sacked the city.
- 1223 – Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus': Mongol forces defeated a Kievan Rus' army at the Battle of the Kalka River in present-day Ukraine.
- 1468 – Cardinal Bessarion (pictured) announced his donation of 746 Greek and Latin codices to the Republic of Venice, forming the Biblioteca Marciana.
- 1935 – A magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck Balochistan in British India, now part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
- 2013 – An extremely large, powerful, and erratic tornado struck Central Oklahoma, killing eight people and injuring more than 150 others.
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