On This Day for May 31 - Adolf Eichmann hanged, Clint Eastwood is featured, and more

Created: 2020-05-31 10:03 Updated: 2020-05-31 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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May 31

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Clint Eastwood

FEATURED EVENT

1962

Adolf Eichmann hanged

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2009: Millvina Dean, the last known person to have survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died in Southampton, England; she was nine weeks old at the time of the disaster. [How much do you know about the Titanic?]

2005: It was publicly revealed that former FBI official Mark Felt was “Deep Throat,” the anonymous informant at the centre of the Watergate scandal that involved U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration. [ Take our quiz about U.S. political scandals.]

1977: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline—which connected the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska with the harbour at Valdez, 800 miles (1,300 km) to the south—was completed. [ Sort fact from fiction in our oil and natural gas quiz.]

1943: American gridiron football player Joe Namath, who was one of the game's best passers and a cultural sports icon of the 1960s, was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. [ Test your knowledge of football.]

1927: The Ford Motor Company stopped producing the hugely popular Model T; prized for its low cost, durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance, the “Tin Lizzie,” as it was known, essentially realized Henry Ford's goal to “democratize the automobile.” [ Watch an overview of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.]

1916: The Battle of Jutland, an encounter between British and German naval fleets in World War I, began. [Sort fact from fiction in our World War I quiz.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1930

Clint Eastwood
American actor and director

1819

Walt Whitman
American poet

1947

John Bonham
British musician

1943

Joe Namath
American football player

1923

Rainier III, prince de Monaco
prince of Monaco