On this day: May 31
May 31: Dragon Boat Festival in China and Taiwan; World No Tobacco Day
Bessarion
455 – Petronius Maximus, the ruler of the Western Roman Empire, was stoned to death by a mob as he fled Rome ahead of the arrival of a Vandal force that sacked the city.
1223 – Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus': Mongol forces defeated a Kievan Rus' army at the Battle of the Kalka River in present-day Ukraine.
1468 – Cardinal Bessarionannounced his donation of 746 Greek and Latin codices to the Republic of Venice, forming the Biblioteca Marciana.
1935 – A magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck Balochistan in British India, now part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
2013 – A tornado struck Central Oklahoma, killing eight people and injuring more than 150 others.
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On this day: May 31
May 31: Dragon Boat Festival in China and Taiwan; World No Tobacco Day
Bessarion
455 – Petronius Maximus, the ruler of the Western Roman Empire, was stoned to death by a mob as he fled Rome ahead of the arrival of a Vandal force that sacked the city.
1223 – Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus': Mongol forces defeated a Kievan Rus' army at the Battle of the Kalka River in present-day Ukraine.
1468 – Cardinal Bessarionannounced his donation of 746 Greek and Latin codices to the Republic of Venice, forming the Biblioteca Marciana.
1935 – A magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck Balochistan in British India, now part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
2013 – A tornado struck Central Oklahoma, killing eight people and injuring more than 150 others.
Albertino MussatoJoseph GrimaldiDina BoluarteMbaye DiagneMore anniversaries:
May 30
May 31
June 1
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