May 31

May 31, 1962

Gaumont cinema in Edinburgh destroyed by fire.

May 31, 1922

The Royal Ulster Constabulary is established

May 31, 1911

The Titanic is launched in Belfast, Ireland

May 31, 1911

The hull of the world’s most famous ship, the Titanic , is launched

May 31, 1900

During the Boer War, Piet de Wet captures the thirteenth battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry at Lindle

May 31, 1889

Helen Waddell, Irish scholar, translator and novelist, is born in Tokyo

May 31, 1848

At Grosse Isle, Canada, 40 Irish Famine immigrant ships wait to unload

May 31, 1847

Birth of Alice Stopford Green in Kells, Co. Meath.

May 31, 1798

Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey is appointed as Commander of the insurgent forces In Wexford town

May 31, 1744

Birth of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, inventor, educationist and politician

May 31, 1727

The Royal Bank of Scotland was formed from a company of debenture holders.

May 31, 1430

Charges are made against Thomas Foster, Archdeacon of Glendalough

May 31, 1367

King Robert III married Annabel Drummond.

Welsh forces under Meredudd, ap Rhys and Meredudd, ab Owain ambush a force of English and Welsh collaborators