
05-30-2004, 06:12 PM
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May 31st
1048 ~ Birthday of Omar Khayyam, Persian Poet, Astronomer & Philosopher
1678 ~ Lady Godiva processed through Coventry.
1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, Poet.
1902 ~ The last Afrikaner resistance forces signed a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the Second Boer War, and ensuring British control of South Africa.
1912 ~ Birthday of Alfred Deller, Early modern countertenor.
1916 ~ The Battle of Jutland, the first and the only full-scale battleship engagement during World War I
1938 ~ Birthday of John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1939 ~ Birthday of Terry Waite, humanitarian.
1974 ~ Syria and Israel signed a disengagement agreement to resolve the Yom Kippur War.
2003 ~ The final flight of an Air France Concorde.
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