History for May 31

History for May 31 - On-This-Day.com
Walt Whitman 1819 - Poet, essayist, journalist, humanist, Norman Vincent Peale 1898, Clint Eastwood 1930 - Actor ("Pale Rider")


Tom Berenger 1950 - Actor ("The Big Chill," "Platoon"), Chris Elliot 1960 - Comedian, Brooke Shields 1965 - Actress


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


1880 - The first U.S. national bicycle society was formed in Newport, RI. It was known as the League of American Wheelmen.


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.


1913 - The 17th Amendment went into effect. It provided for popular election of U.S. senators.


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


1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was finished after 3 years of construction.