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May 31st, 2008	Event	Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds.
May 31st, 1997	Event	The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
May 31st, 1987	Event	Athena 98.4 FM, the first legal private radio station starts broadcasting in Greece.
May 31st, 1985	Event	1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
May 31st, 1985	Event	Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
May 31st, 1977	Event	The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
May 31st, 1973	Event	The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
May 31st, 1971	Event	In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
May 31st, 1970	Event	The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
May 31st, 1962	Event	The West Indies Federation dissolves.

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