About the day » Tuesday May 31, 2011Calender converter

• Blanche Hendrickx (94), Brugge, België
• Bill Maung (92), New Zealand
• Geiske Eeltjes Osinga (87)
• E Senietzki (90), Maastricht
• Cornelia (Cor) Schoonderwoerd (98)
• Cornelis H J Willemsen (62), Doornenburg
• Bernice Wiegmann (91), Rice Memorial Hospital, Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
• Geiske Osinga (87), Sint Annaparochie
• Barbara Yvonne (Bonny) Foss
• Frances Sorkin (87), Chicago, Cook, Illinois

• 1984 » Andrew Bailey, American baseball player
• 1984 » Milorad Čavić, Serbian swimmer
• 1985 » Jordy Nelson, American football player
• 1986 » Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
• 1989 » Marco Reus, German footballer
• 1990 » Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1992 » Laura Ikauniece, Latvian heptathlete
• 1992 » Michaël Bournival, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1996 » Normani Korde, American singer
• 1998 » Santino Ferrucci, American race car driver

• 2010 » Brian Duffy, English photographer and producer (b. 1933)
• 2010 » Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (b. 1911)
• 2010 » Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer-songwriter and bandoneón player (b. 1947)
• 2010 » William A. Fraker, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1923)
• 2011 » Andy Robustelli, American football player and manager (b. 1925)
• 2011 » Derek Hodge, Virgin Islander lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1941)
• 2011 » Hans Keilson, German-Dutch psychoanalyst and author (b. 1909)
• 2011 » John Martin, English admiral and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (b. 1918)
• 2011 » Jonas Bevacqua, American fashion designer, co-founded the Lifted Research Group (b. 1977)
• 2011 » Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• February 17 » Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi's regime begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.
• June 1 » A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
• September 17 » Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
• September 29 » The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.
• November 23 » Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
• December 31 » Samoa and Tokelau skip the day of December 30, 2011 as they jump to the other side of International Date Line, changing their timezones.

The temperature on May 31, 2011 was between 9.5 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.