Following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 31:
\n1902 \u2013 The Treaty of Vereeniging was signed in Pretoria, ending the Boer War between settlers of British and Dutch origin in what later became South Africa.
\n1911 \u2013 The ocean liner Titanic was launched in Belfast. It sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912.
\n1952 \u2013 Emil Zatopek sets new world record for 5000 metres.
\n2002 \u2013 Asia\u2019s first soccer World Cup starts with champions France playing first-timers Senegal.
\n2003 \u2013 Eric Robert Rudolph, the man suspected of bombing abortion clinics and a gay nightclub as well as setting off a bomb at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, was captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
\n2005 \u2013 The Washington Post revealed that \u201cDeep Throat\u201d, the legendary source who leaked Watergate scandal secrets to its reporters, was former FBI deputy director Mark Felt.
\n2006 \u2013 Surfers in Sydney attempt to break world record of multiple surfers riding the same wave.
\n2008 \u2013 Usain Bolt of Jamaica set a new world record in the men\u2019s 100 metres race in New York.
\n2009 \u2013 British children attempt to hold the largest custard pie fight.
\n2010 \u2013 Israeli forces intercept flotilla bound for Gaza.
\n2017 \u2013 Car bomb blast outside German embassy in Kabul.
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