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Historical Events on May 31 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 207 of 207

  • 2021 Peru says its COVID-19 death toll is three times higher than its official count (180,764 vs 68,000), making it one of the hardest hit countries per capita
  • 2021 Tulsa, Oklahoma, marks 100 year anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of black residents by a white mob in the Greenwood neighborhood
  • 2022 Lost 3,400 year-old Bronze Age city unearthed on the Tigris river, Iraq due to drought, likely part of the Mittani Empire, including 100 cuneiform tablets [1]
  • 2023 Latvia elects its Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics as President - first openly gay leader of a Baltic state [1]
  • 2023 Los Angeles County jury convicts American actor Danny Masterson on two of three counts of forcible rape
  • 2023 NASA panel investigating unidentified flying objects at its first open meeting highlights stigma involved in reporting sightings and lack of high-quality data (mysterious radio signals turned out to be a local microwave) [1]
  • 2024 Trillions of periodical cicadas (Magicicada) emerge together in the US for the first time in 221 years, brood XIX (Great Southern Brood) after 13 years and brood XIII after 17 years [1]