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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_31" title="May 31">May 31</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_No_Tobacco_Day" title="World No Tobacco Day">World No Tobacco Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/455" title="455">455</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius_Maximus" title="Petronius Maximus">Petronius Maximus</a></b>, ruler of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire" title="Western Roman Empire">Western Roman Empire</a>, was stoned to death by a mob as he fled Rome ahead of the arrival of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals" title="Vandals">Vandal</a> force that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(455)" title="Sack of Rome (455)">sacked the city</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1223" title="1223">1223</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Kievan_Rus%27" title="Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'">Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongol</a> forces <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Kalka_River" title="Battle of the Kalka River">defeated</a></b> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a> army at the Kalka River in present-day Ukraine.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1468" title="1468">1468</a> – Cardinal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessarion" title="Bessarion">Bessarion</a> announced his donation of 746 Greek and Latin <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex" title="Codex">codices</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" title="Republic of Venice">Republic of Venice</a>, forming the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Marciana" title="Biblioteca Marciana">Biblioteca Marciana</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935" title="1935">1935</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Quetta_earthquake" title="1935 Quetta earthquake">An earthquake</a></b> registering <span class="nowrap">7.7 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale">M<sub>w</sub></a></span> struck <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baluchistan_(Chief_Commissioner%27s_Province)" title="Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)">Balochistan</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a>, now part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" title="2013">2013</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_El_Reno_tornado" title="2013 El Reno tornado">A tornado</a></b> struck Central Oklahoma, killing 8 people and injuring more than 150.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za_II_of_Hungary" title="Géza II of Hungary">Géza II of Hungary</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1162); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sickert" title="Walter Sickert">Walter Sickert</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1860); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen_Jensen_(soldier)" title="Jørgen Jensen (soldier)">Jørgen Jensen</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1922)</p>