Today in History: May 31, the Tulsa Race Massacre begins

This day is Saturday May the st day of There are days left in the year The present day in history On May a two-day massacre erupted in Tulsa Oklahoma as white mobs began looting and burning the affluent Black district of Greenwood over reports a Black man had assaulted a white woman in an elevator though the exact number remains unknown as plenty of as Black Tulsans were killed during the riot Also on this date In President George Washington signed into law the first U S copyright act Related Articles El Paso Weld counties along with Aurora are removed from DHS s list of immigration sanctuary jurisdictions A -pound boulder pins Alaska man face-down in a glacier creek for three hours Dozens sickened in expanding salmonella outbreak linked to recalled cucumbers MLB players families grapple with rising online threats as sports betting surges Sellers outnumber prospective homebuyers as high prices and mortgage rates skew the housing sphere In over people in Johnstown Pennsylvania died when the South Fork Dam collapsed sending million tons of water rushing through the town In former State Department official and accused spy Alger Hiss went on trial in New York charged with perjury the trial ended with a hung jury but Hiss was convicted in a second trial In a magnitude earthquake struck the Ancash region of Peru the quake combined with the landslide it triggered killed an estimated people In the -mile-long Trans-Alaska oil pipeline was completed after three years of construction In Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein certified a Vanity Fair magazine record naming former FBI official W Mark Felt as the Watergate controversy informant previously known only as Deep Throat In Millvina Dean the last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic died in Hampshire England at In Sgt Bowe Bergdahl the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan was freed by the Taliban in exchange for five Afghan detainees from the U S prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba Bergdahl who d gone missing in June later pleaded guilty to endangering his comrades by walking away from his post in Afghanistan his sentence included a dishonorable discharge a reduction in rank and a fine but no prison time In a longtime city employee opened fire in a municipal building in Virginia Beach Virginia killing people on three floors before police shot and killed him officers stated DeWayne Craddock had resigned by email hours before the shooting This day s Birthdays Actor-filmmaker Clint Eastwood is Football Hall of Famer Joe Namath is Actor Tom Berenger is Actor-comedian Chris Elliott is Actor Lea Thompson is Musician Corey Hart is Rapper Darryl DMC McDaniels is Actor Brooke Shields is TV host Phil Keoghan is Jazz musician Christian McBride is Actor Archie Panjabi is Actor Colin Farrell is Singer Normani is Tennis contestant Iga wi tek is