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On May 31st... 1790 The U.S. copyright law was enacted. 1809 Composer Franz Joseph Haydn died. 1819 Poet Walt Whitman was born. 1889 Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was devastated by a flood after an upstream dam broke. 1890 Harry Hines Woodring, Governor of Kansas and U.S. Secretary of War, was born. 1894 Radio personality Fred Allen was born. 1905 Actor "Reb" Russell was born. 1910 Physician Elizabeth Blackwell died. 1913 The 17th Amendment, providing for direct election of Senators, was proclaimed. 1916 The Battle of Jutland was fought in the North Sea. 1943 Football player Joe Namath was born. |
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