FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2013

Today is Friday, May 31, the 151st day of 2013. There are 214 days left in the year.

70 ― Rome captures first wall of the city of Jerusalem

1531 ― “Women’s Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted

1678 ― Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes

1868 ― Dr. James Moore (U.K.) wins first recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parch de St. Cloud, Paris

1870 ― E. J. DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement

1884 ― Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents “flaked cereal"

1900 ― U.S. troops arrive in Peking, help put down “Boxer Rebellion”

1917 ― First jazz record released (Dark Town Stutters Ball)

1991 ― Oldest bride; Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia

1997 ― Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150 meter race