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Events on May 31st

May 31st 2004 : Charisma Carpenter: Appeared named on the June 2004 cover of Playboy with a 10 page layout inside
May 31st 2003 : Tobey Maguire: Won MTV Movie Award Best kiss nominee in Spider-Man Shared with Kirsten Dunst
May 31st 2003 : Final flight of the Concorde
The final flight of a Concorde occurred when Air France flew its Concorde from Paris to New York.
May 31st 2003 : Jennifer Garner: Won MTV Movie Award in category Breakthrough Female Performance for movie "Daredevil"
May 31st 1988 : Johnny Depp: Got his "Betty Sue" tattoo
May 31st 1927 : Last Model T is built
The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of an amazing 15,007,003 vehicles. The Model T was the first car to be built using the assembly line method.
May 31st 1884 : Kellog patents corn flakes
John Harvey Kellog, one of the first people to run a sanitarium using holistic methods, patented the breakfast cereal corn flakes.
May 31st 1678 : Lady Godiva rides through Coventry
According to legend, Lady Godiva rode naked through the town of Coventry , England to protest the oppressive taxation of her husband on his tenants.

UK Number 1 Singles on May 31st

May 31st 2006 "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley
May 31st 2005 "Axel F" by Crazy Frog
May 31st 2004 "F.U.R.B. (F U Right Back)" by Frankee
May 31st 2003 "Ignition (remix)" by R. Kelly
May 31st 2002 "Without Me" by Eminem
May 31st 2001 "Do You Really Like It?" by DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies
May 31st 2000 "It Feels So Good" by Sonique
May 31st 1999 "Sweet Like Chocolate" by Shanks & Bigfoot
May 31st 1998 "C'Est La Vie" by B*Witched
May 31st 1997 "I Wanna Be The Only One" by Eternal featuring Bebe Winans
May 31st 1996 "Three Lions" by Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds
May 31st 1995 "Unchained Melody / White cliffs of Dover" by Robson & Jerome
May 31st 1994 "Love Is All Around" by Wet Wet Wet
May 31st 1993 "All That She Wants" by Ace of Base
May 31st 1992 "Please Don't Go" by K.W.S.
May 31st 1991 "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" by Cher
May 31st 1990 "Killer" by Adamski
May 31st 1989 "Ferry 'Cross The Mersey" by The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden, Stock Aitken Waterman
May 31st 1988 "With a Little Help from My Friends / Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey - She's Leaving Home" by Wet Wet Wet
May 31st 1987 "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" by Whitney Houston
May 31st 1986 "The Chicken Song" by Spitting Image
May 31st 1985 "19" by Paul Hardcastle
May 31st 1984 "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" by Wham!
May 31st 1983 "Every Breath You Take" by The Police
May 31st 1982 "House of Fun" by Madness
May 31st 1981 "Stand and Deliver" by Adam and the Ants
May 31st 1980 "Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)" by Mash
May 31st 1979 "Sunday Girl" by Blondie
May 31st 1978 "Rivers of Babylon" by Boney M
May 31st 1977 "I Don't Want to Talk About It /The First Cut is the Deepest" by Rod Stewart
May 31st 1976 "Fernando" by ABBA
May 31st 1975 "Stand By Your Man" by Tammy Wynette
May 31st 1974 "Sugar Baby Love" by The Rubettes
May 31st 1973 "See My Baby Jive" by Wizzard
May 31st 1972 "Metal Guru" by T. Rex
May 31st 1971 "Knock Three Times" by Dawn
May 31st 1970 "Back Home" by England World Cup Squad
May 31st 1969 "Get Back" by The Beatles with Billy Preston
May 31st 1968 "Young Girl" by Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett
May 31st 1967 "Silence Is Golden" by The Tremeloes
May 31st 1966 "Paint It, Black" by Rolling Stones
May 31st 1965 "Long Live Love" by Sandie Shaw
May 31st 1964 "You're My World" by Cilla Black
May 31st 1963 "From Me To You" by The Beatles
May 31st 1962 "Good Luck Charm" by Elvis Presley
May 31st 1961 "You're Driving Me Crazy" by The Temperance Seven
May 31st 1960 "Cathy's Clown" by Everly Brothers
May 31st 1959 "A Fool Such As I/I Need Your Love" by Elvis Presley
May 31st 1958 "Who's Sorry Now?" by Connie Francis
May 31st 1957 "Butterfly" by Andy Williams
May 31st 1956 "No Other Love" by Ronnie Hilton
May 31st 1955 "Cherry Pink (And Apple Blossom White)" by Eddie Calvert
May 31st 1954 "Secret Love" by Doris Day
May 31st 1953 "I Believe" by Frankie Laine

USA Number 1 Singles on May 31st

May 31st 2006 "SOS" by Rihanna
May 31st 2005 "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani
May 31st 2004 "Burn" by Usher
May 31st 2003 "21 Questions" by 50 Cent featuring Nate Dogg
May 31st 2002 "Foolish" by Ashanti
May 31st 2001 "All for You" by Janet
May 31st 2000 "Maria Maria" by Santana featuring The Product G&B
May 31st 1999 "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin
May 31st 1998 "Too Close" by Next
May 31st 1997 "MMMBop" by Hanson
May 31st 1996 "Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
May 31st 1995 "This Is How We Do It" by Montell Jordan
May 31st 1994 "I Swear" by All-4-One
May 31st 1993 "That's the Way Love Goes" by Janet Jackson
May 31st 1992 "Jump" by Kris Kross
May 31st 1991 "I Don't Wanna Cry" by Mariah Carey
May 31st 1990 "Vogue" by Madonna
May 31st 1989 "Forever Your Girl" by Paula Abdul
May 31st 1988 "One More Try" by George Michael
May 31st 1987 "With or Without You" by U2
May 31st 1986 "Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston
May 31st 1985 "Everything She Wants" by Wham!
May 31st 1984 "Let's Hear It for the Boy" by Deniece Williams
May 31st 1983 "Flashdance... What a Feeling" by Irene Cara
May 31st 1982 "Ebony and Ivory" by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
May 31st 1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes
May 31st 1980 "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc
May 31st 1979 "Reunited" by Peaches & Herb
May 31st 1978 "With a Little Luck" by Wings
May 31st 1977 "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder
May 31st 1976 "Love Hangover" by Diana Ross
May 31st 1975 "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" by Freddy Fender
May 31st 1974 "The Streak" by Ray Stevens
May 31st 1973 "Frankenstein" by The Edgar Winter Group
May 31st 1972 "Oh Girl" by The Chi-Lites
May 31st 1971 "Brown Sugar" by The Rolling Stones
May 31st 1970 "Everything is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens
May 31st 1969 "Get Back" by The Beatles with Billy Preston
May 31st 1968 "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell & the Drells
May 31st 1967 "Groovin'" by The Young Rascals
May 31st 1966 "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Percy Sledge
May 31st 1965 "Help Me Rhonda" by The Beach Boys
May 31st 1964 "Love Me Do" by The Beatles
May 31st 1963 "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul
May 31st 1962 "Stranger on the Shore" by Mr. Acker Bilk
May 31st 1961 "Travelin' Man" by Ricky Nelson
May 31st 1960 "Cathy's Clown" by The Everly Brothers
May 31st 1959 "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison
May 31st 1958 "All I Have to Do Is Dream/Claudette" by Everly Brothers
May 31st 1957 "All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley
May 31st 1956 "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley
May 31st 1955 "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by Pérez Prado
May 31st 1954 "Wanted" by Perry Como
May 31st 1953 "The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart)" by Percy Faith
May 31st 1952 "Blue Tango" by Leroy Anderson
May 31st 1951 "How High the Moon" by Les Paul and Mary Ford
May 31st 1950 "The Third Man Theme" by Anton Karas
May 31st 1949 "Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)" by Vaughn Monroe
May 31st 1948 "Nature Boy" by King Cole
May 31st 1947 "Heartaches" by Ted Weems
May 31st 1946 "The Gypsy" by The Ink Spots
May 31st 1945 "Sentimental Journey" by Les Brown
May 31st 1944 "I Love You" by Bing Crosby
May 31st 1943 "That Old Black Magic" by Glenn Miller
May 31st 1942 "Tangerine" by Jimmy Dorsey
May 31st 1941 "Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)" by Jimmy Dorsey

Birthdays on May 31st

May 31st 1984 Jason Smith
May 31st 1976 Colin Farrell
May 31st 1971 Monika Schnarre
May 31st 1968 Duane Causwell
May 31st 1967 Sandrine Bonnaire
May 31st 1965 Brooke Shields
May 31st 1963 Wendy Smith
May 31st 1962 Corey Hart
May 31st 1961 Lea Thompson
May 31st 1960 Chris Elliott
May 31st 1960 Norm Johnson
May 31st 1958 Kyle Secor
May 31st 1957 Jim Craig
May 31st 1956 Bart van Poppel
May 31st 1950 Gregory Harrison
May 31st 1950 Tom Berenger
May 31st 1948 John Bonham
May 31st 1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
May 31st 1943 Joe Namath
May 31st 1943 Sharon Gless
May 31st 1941 Johnny Paycheck
May 31st 1940 Augie Mayer
May 31st 1939 Terry Waite
May 31st 1938 Peter Yarrow
May 31st 1938 John Prescott
May 31st 1934 Jim Hutton
May 31st 1931 Steve Horn
May 31st 1931 Shirley Verrett
May 31st 1930 Clint Eastwood
May 31st 1929 Elaine Stewart
May 31st 1929 Aladar Zoltan
May 31st 1922 Denholm Elliott
May 31st 1921 Alida Valli
May 31st 1920 Edward Bennett Williams
May 31st 1916 Bert Haanstra
May 31st 1916 John Vivyan
May 31st 1916 Judy Campbell
May 31st 1915 Barbara Pepper
May 31st 1914 Akira Ifukube
May 31st 1912 Martin Schwarzschild
May 31st 1908 Don Ameche
May 31st 1898 Norman Vincent Peale
May 31st 1894 Fred Allen
May 31st 1838 Henry Sidgwick
May 31st 1819 Walt Whitman
May 31st 1804 Jeanne-Louise Farrenc
May 31st 1802 Cesare Pugni
May 31st 1773 Ludwig Tieck
May 31st 1701 Alexander Cruden
May 31st 1674 Friedrich Erhard Niedt

Deaths on May 31st

May 31st 2001 Arlene Francis
May 31st 1996 Paul Peter Piech
May 31st 1996 Timothy Leary
May 31st 1995 Tim Mara
May 31st 1994 Herva Nelli
May 31st 1994 Sidney Gilliat
May 31st 1993 John Granger
May 31st 1992 Lutz Stavenhagen
May 31st 1991 H N "Swanie" Swanson
May 31st 1991 Angus Wilson
May 31st 1989 Terry Drinkwater
May 31st 1989 Charles A Hufnagel
May 31st 1987 Dorothy Patrick
May 31st 1983 Jack Dempsey
May 31st 1976 Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell
May 31st 1976 Jacques Monod
May 31st 1974 Adelle Davis
May 31st 1973 Albert Egges van Giffen
May 31st 1971 Massimo Campigli
May 31st 1963 Carel C van Essen
May 31st 1962 Eduardo Toldra
May 31st 1962 Adolf Eichmann
May 31st 1960 Willem Elsschot
May 31st 1955 "Wild Bill" Vukovich
May 31st 1955 Raoul Gunsbourg
May 31st 1952 Walter Schellenberg
May 31st 1948 Jose Vianna da Motta
May 31st 1947 Adrienne Ames
May 31st 1947 Henri G Casadesus
May 31st 1928 Manuel de Oliveira Lima
May 31st 1928 Ludwig Enneccerus
May 31st 1916 Horace Hood
May 31st 1910 Elizabeth Blackwell
May 31st 1906 King Alfonso XIII
May 31st 1906 Victoria von Battenberg
May 31st 1906 Hermann Schell
May 31st 1900 James Loudon
May 31st 1900 John Power
May 31st 1862 Robert Hatton
May 31st 1854 Vatroslav Lisinski
May 31st 1837 Joseph Grimaldi
May 31st 1809 Ferdinand von Schill
May 31st 1809 Franz Josef Haydn
May 31st 1809 Franz Joseph Haydn
May 31st 1740 Frederick-William I
May 31st 1696 Heinrich Schwemmer
May 31st 1665 Pieter J Saenredam
May 31st 1620 Willem Louis
May 31st 1594 Tintoretto
May 31st 1551 Aristotele "Basiano" da Sangallo
May 31st 1504 Engelbert II
May 31st 1198 Moses ben Solomon Ha-Cohen
May 31st 1091 Hendrik van Verdun

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