May 31st is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 214 days remaining in the year.

1879 • New York’s Madison Square Garden opened.

1884 • Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented “flaked cereal”.

1909 • The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its first conference.

1911 • The ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic is launched.

1913 • The 17th Amendment went into effect. It provided for popular election of Senators.

1927 • The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.

2009 • Elizabeth Legel and Drew Fort are married

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