History for May 31

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Walt Whitman 1819 - Poet, essayist, journalist, humanist, Norman Vincent Peale 1898, Clint Eastwood 1930 - Actor ("Pale Rider")


Peter Yarrow 1938 - Musician (Peter, Paul and Mary), Joe Namath 1943 - Football player, Tom Berenger 1950 - Actor ("The Big Chill," "Platoon")


1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by the U.S. Congress.


1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented "flaked cereal."


1889 - In Johnstown, PA, more than 2,200 people died after the South Fork Dam collapsed.


1900 - U.S. troops arrived in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion.


1902 - The Boer War ended between the Boers of South Africa and Great Britain with the Treaty of Vereeniging.


1915 - A German zeppelin made an air raid on London.


1927 - Ford Motor Company produced the last "Tin Lizzie" in order to begin production of the Model A.


1962 - Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. Eichmann was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in the Nazi Holocaust.