Historical Events
- -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record)
- 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
- A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, in neutral Ireland, claims 38 lives
- German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
- Nazi occupiers forbid Jews access to beaches and swimming pools in the Netherlands
Famous Birthdays
- Gil Morgan, American golfer (Senior Players C'ship 1998, The Tradition 1997, 98), born in Wewoka, Oklahoma
- June Clark, British Professor of Nursing (Middlesex U)
- Kenneth Cooper, American harpsichordist, pianist, musicologist, and professor (Barnard College, Brooklyn, NYC), born in New York City (d. 2021)
- Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, (1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on nitric oxide), born in Brooklyn, New York
- William Nordhaus, American economist (Nobel Prize 2018, climate change modelling), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Wolfgang Fahrian, German soccer goalkeeper (10 caps DRG; SC Fortuna Köln), born in Blaustein, Germany (d. 2022)
About May 31, 1941
Day of the Week: Saturday
How Long Ago? 82 years, 10 months and 19 days
Leap Year: No
Generation: Silent Generation
Chinese Zodiac: Snake
Star Sign: Gemini
