May 31 in Pop Culture History |
| May 31st is… Autonomous Vehicle Day Macaroon Day Save Your Hearing Day Smile Day Speak in Sentences Day Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Day |
| 1279 BC – Ramesses II became pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. He may have been the pharaoh involved with Moses. He was the subject of Percy Bysshe Shelly’s Ozymandias. “King of Kings am I, Ozymandias. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works.”
1578 – The Catacombs of Rome were discovered. 1790 – The United States enacted the Copyright Act of 1790. 1859 – Big Ben began operating at the top of London’s 320-foot-high St. Stephen’s Tower. 1889 – Johnston, Pennsylvania Flood killed over 2,200 people. 1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. Henry took the first one, the prototype, home. 1935 (Earthquake) British India (Pakistan) 1970 (Earthquake) Yungay, Peru 1977 – The Sex Pistol’s God Save The Queen was banned from performing on the BBC. 1977 – Beatlemania (Broadway Musical) Opened on May 31, 1977, and closed on October 17, 1979 1997 – Singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley drowned while swimming in his pool. He was not 27. 2000 – Survivor premiered on CBS 2005 – W. Mark Felt’s family announced that assistant FBI director Felt was, in fact, ‘Deep Throat’ – the insider who told reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein the details about President Nixon’s Watergate scandal. |