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31 May 2014
The video for Psy's Gangnam Style reached two billion views on YouTube.
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31 May 2013
The widest tornado ever recorded hits El Reno, Oklahoma.
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31 May 2008
The Discovery Space Shuttle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-124.
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31 May 2007
Rihanna released her third studio album titled 'Good Girl Gone Bad.'
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31 May 2005
Deep Throat reveals himself.
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31 May 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the 3rd film based on the books by J. K. Rowling, was released in UK cinemas.
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31 May 1970
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Peru, killing as many as 70,000 people.
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31 May 1961
South Africa becomes an independent republic.
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31 May 1942
Imperial Japan began a series of submarine attacks on Sydney.
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31 May 1935
20th Century Fox was founded after a merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures.
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31 May 1911
The RMS Titanic was launched from Belfast, where it was also constructed.
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31 May 1879
Werner von Siemens presents the world's first electric locomotive.
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31 May 1870
Congress passed the Enforcement Act.
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31 May 1861
The New Orleans Minting facility closed.
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31 May 1859
The Great Clock housing Big Ben starts keeping time.
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31 May 1790
The Copyright Act of 1790 became the first federal copyright act to be established in the United States.
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31 May 1669
English civil servant Samuel Pepys recorded his last diary entry.
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31 May 1223
Battle of the Kalka River occurred.
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31 May 1279 BC
Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great, became the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt.
