May 31, 1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
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Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett, 1886
Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)
Walt Whitman, 1891 (printed 1979), Thomas Eakins. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Happy Birthday, Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989)
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Outlaw Pearl Taylor Hart
May 30, 1899 – Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
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![May 30, 1806 – Future U.S. president Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
[Miss Grace Stockman with President Andrew Jackson’s dueling pistols, at the National Museum], 1926
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May 30, 1806 – Future U.S. president Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
[Miss Grace Stockman with President Andrew Jackson’s dueling pistols, at the National Museum], 1926
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Telegraph Wires, c. 1925, Tina Modotti
Happy Birthday, Doris Ulmann (May 29, 1882 – August 28, 1934)
Doris Ulmann with camera, 1934 (image from University of Kentucky Libraries)
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Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich during filming of Dishonored
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