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Events on May 31

• 1740 Frederick II, later known as Frederick the Great and Old Fritz, succeeds his deceased father Frederick William I as King in Prussia.
• 1849 The German National Assembly holds its final session at the Frankfurt Paulskirche.
• 1859 Big Ben rings with the Westminster chime for the first time from the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster.
• 1884 John Harvey Kellogg has the cornflakes he invented patented.
• 1911 The Titanic is launched.
• 1945 In the Brno Death March, 27,000 Germans are expelled from Brno and forced to make an approximately 55 km foot march to the Austrian border; around 5,200 of them lose their lives.
• 1965 In Pforzheim, the German Federal Post puts the world's first electronic letter-sorting system into operation. The destination code is determined using matrix coding and applied to the mail item as a barcode.
• 1970 In the opening match of the World Cup in Mexico, Mexico and the Soviet Union draw 0:0.
• 1976 The Who perform the world's loudest rock concert to date – with a total of 76,000 watts, the PA system reaches a volume of 120 decibels.
• 2003 Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder unveil a reconstruction of the Amber Room in St. Petersburg (Russia).
• 2010 German Federal President Horst Köhler declares his immediate resignation from the highest state office due to criticism of his statements on the use of the Bundeswehr to safeguard the foreign trade interests of the Federal Republic.
• 2011 Before the Mannheim Regional Court, weather presenter Jörg Kachelmann is acquitted of the charge of rape and dangerous bodily injury.

Born on May 31

• 1852 Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist
• 1857 Pius XI., Pope
• 1913 Peter Frankenfeld, German showmaster
• 1923 Rainier III., Prince of Monaco
• 1930 Clint Eastwood, American producer, film director and actor
• 1962 Sebastian Koch, German actor
• 1963 Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician
• 1971 Diana Damrau, German singer
• 1981 Marlies Schild, Austrian ski racer
• 2001 Iga Świątek, Polish tennis player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „31. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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