May 31<\/p>\n
1775 \u2013 A month after the battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, the Mecklenburg Resolves, annulling and vacating all laws originating from the authority of the British King or Parliament, and ending recognition of the Crown’s power in the colony of North Carolina are adopted by the Mecklenburg County Committee of Safety.<\/p>\n
1790 \u2013 Congress enacts the first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.<\/em><\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 During the Peninsula Campaign; outside Richmond, Virginia,\u00a0 Confederate forces under General Joseph E. Johnston engages Union forces under General George B. McClellan<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 During\u00a0 the Overland Campaign; at Cold Harbor, Virginia, the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under General Ulysses S. Grant.<\/p>\n 1879 \u2013 Gilmore’s Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.<\/p>\n 1889 \u2013 After several days of heavy rain, the earthen work South Fork Dam of the Little Conemaugh River fails, sending a 60 foot wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania killing over 2,200 people.<\/p>\n 1921 \u2013 A race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma results in the deaths of an estimated\u00a0 55 to 300 black people.<\/p>\n 1924 \u2013 A fire at the Hope Development School in Playa Del Rey, Los Angeles, California,\u00a0kills 24 people, mostly disabled children.<\/p>\n 1951 \u2013 Under authority given by the Constitution in Article I, Section 8, which provides that “The Congress shall have Power….To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval forces<\/em>“, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, <\/em>10 United States Code \u00a7\u00a7 801\u2013946 takes effect as the legal system of the U.S. Armed Forces.<\/p>\n 1955 \u2013 The U.S. Supreme Court expands on its Brown v. Board of Education<\/em> decision by ordering district courts and school districts to enforce educational desegregation “at all deliberate speed<\/em>.”<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act<\/em> passed by Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 The Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, running from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska is completed.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 41 tornadoes strike Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, Canada leaving 76 dead.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, at 9.72 seconds.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 A record 2.6 mile wide, multiple vortex, EF5 force tornado, strikes El Reno, Oklahoma, killing 8 people, 4 of them ‘storm chasers’ and injuring 151 more.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 A disgruntled city employee commits mass murder at a municipal office building at Virginia Beach, Virginia, shooting and killing 12 people and wounding 4 others before being engaged and killed by Police.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 SpaceX Crew Dragon 2 Endeavour<\/em> docks with the International Space Station and astronauts Hurley and Behnken transfer over to spend 62 days in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 31 1775 \u2013 A month after the battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, the Mecklenburg Resolves, annulling and vacating all laws originating from the authority of the British King or Parliament, and ending recognition of the Crown’s power in the colony of North Carolina are adopted by the Mecklenburg County Committee of Safety. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93295,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68352\/revisions\/93295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}