Today in History
Listings for Friday, May 31, 2019.
Birthdays:
- 1819 Walt Whitman, poet
- 1894 Fred Allen
- 1898 Norman Vincent Peale
- 1908 Don Ameche
- 1922 Denholm Elliott
- 1930 Clint Eastwood
- 1938 Peter Yarrow
- 1941 Johnny Paycheck
- 1943 Joe Namath
- 1943 Sharon Gless
- 1950 Gregory Harrison
- 1961 Lea Thompson
- 1965 Brooke Shields
Events:
- Republic Day, celebrated in South Africa
- 1433 Joan of Arc has a hot time at the stake...
- 1678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry
- 1868 1st recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
- 1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
- 1889 Johnstown Flood
That's all for today.
