May 31: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

• Clint Eastwood (1930)

  American actor playing tough-guy roles.

• Colin Farrell (1976)

  He was an Irish actor who got his breakthrough role in 1998 when he was cast as iin Ballykissangel on BBC TV.

• Brooke Shields (1965)

  American actress and model.

• Sandrine Bonnaire (1967)

  French actress who has appeared in more than 40 Hollywood and French films.

• Lea Thompson (1961)

  American actress and dancer.

• Tom Berenger (1949)

  American actor.

• Joe Namath (1943)

  American football player who led the New York Jets' winning campaign at Super Bowl III.

• Sharon Gless (1943)

  American actress, whose greatest success was as a detective in the series "Cagney and Lacey" (1982).

• Eric Christian Olsen (1977)

  American actor.

• Alida Valli (1921)

  Internationally recognized Italian actress.

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• Arlene Francis (2001)

  American actress and television personality, she has been a fixture on "What's My Line" for 25 years.

• Dorothy Patrick (1987)

  Actress (Torch Song - New Orleans, High Wall).

• Jack Dempsey (1982)

  In 1919, Jess Willard was defeated by American Heavyweight Boxing Champion.

• Adrienne Ames (1947)

  Actress (Black Sheep 24 Hours), dies in 39.

• Timothy Leary (1996)

  American professor and guru of 1960's drug culture.

• Adolf Eichmann (1962)

  German Lieutenant Colonel in SS, who compiled a "doomsday list" of 11,000,000 Jews that was to be exterminated.

• Louise Bourgeois (2010)

  French artist and contemporary representative of American sculpture.

• Walter Schellenberg (1952)

  German Nazi leader, executive of the S.D.

• John Power (1900)

  Irish whiskey maker, baronet, dies in battle.

• Etienne Roda-Gil (2004)

  French screenwriter and songwriter (Born 1941).

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Western Zodiac

Gemini

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• May 31st, 2019 Taliban suicide car bomber kills 4 Afghan civilians, inflicting more than 20 injuries on top of the four American soldiers.
• May 31st, 2018 2018 Nicaraguan protests: After violent protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Catholic bishops have cancelled the Episcopal Conference talks they had planned with the government. According to Nicaraguan Human Rights Center 11 people were killed by pro-government armed group.
• May 31st, 2017 Afghanistan War (2001-present). May 2017 Kabul Attack: At least 90 people are killed and 461 others injured in a suicide bombing in Kabul, near the German Embassy. (Reuters via SBS), The Guardian
• May 31st, 2016 Syrian Civil War: Overnight air strikes in Idlib (Syria) have claimed the lives of at least 23 people.
• May 31st, 2015 Sinai insurgency. Egyptian security officials have reported that militants attacked a pipeline carrying natural gas to Israel from El-Arish (the provincial capital of North Sinai). The pipeline has been attacked at least 20 times over the past five years.
• May 31st, 2014 War in North-West Pakistan: Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani border point in the Bajur tribal region, resulting in 14 militants being killed and one soldier being wounded.

• May 31st, 2013 After days of unrest, police forcefully expelled Turkish protestors from Gezi Park, Taksim Square in Istanbul.
• May 31st, 2012 14 people are killed in a series of bombings that took place in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.
• May 31st, 2011 Afghanistan War:
• May 31st, 2010 Shayetet thirteen soldiers attacked the flotilla with guns in international waters. They were trying to break the blockade of Gaza Strip. A violent attack began during the armed aggression against the MV MaviMarmara ship. 9 activists were killed by soldiers aboard, with many others injured.
• May 31st, 2009 The People's Justice Party wins Penanti, Penang, Malaysia by-election.
• May 31st, 2008 NASA's Discovery spacecraft launches from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a 14-day mission towards the International Space Station. It carries a cylinder for Japan’s Kibo science laboratory and a pump to fix the station's toilet.

May 31st marks the 150th day of year the Gregorian calendar;

There are 214 days remaining until the end of the year.

What day of the week is May 31st?

On May 31st, 2023 the day of the week is Wednesday.

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