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Gaumont cinema in Edinburgh destroyed by fire.
May 31, 1962
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The Royal Ulster Constabulary is established
May 31, 1922
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The Titanic is launched in Belfast, Ireland
May 31, 1911
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The hull of the world’s most famous ship, the Titanic , is launched
May 31, 1911
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During the Boer War, Piet de Wet captures the thirteenth battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry at Lindle
May 31, 1900
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Helen Waddell, Irish scholar, translator and novelist, is born in Tokyo
May 31, 1889
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At Grosse Isle, Canada, 40 Irish Famine immigrant ships wait to unload
May 31, 1848
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Birth of Alice Stopford Green in Kells, Co. Meath.
May 31, 1847
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Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey is appointed as Commander of the insurgent forces In Wexford town
May 31, 1798
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Birth of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, inventor, educationist and politician
May 31, 1744
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The Royal Bank of Scotland was formed from a company of debenture holders.
May 31, 1727
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Charges are made against Thomas Foster, Archdeacon of Glendalough
May 31, 1430
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King Robert III married Annabel Drummond.
May 31, 1367
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Welsh forces under Meredudd, ap Rhys and Meredudd, ab Owain ambush a force of English and Welsh collaborators
May 31, 1257