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May 31, 1941

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Headlines from May 31, 1941

Blasts Set Fires in Dublin; Homes Collapse on Victims

By the Associated Press

DUBLIN, Saturday, May 31 -- Three bombs dropped here early today by unidentified aircraft killed at least thirty persons and injured between 100 and 200, the police of this capital of neutral Eire reported. Two bombs struck northside residential areas, demolishing homes and burying their occupants. The third struck about a half mile from the center of the city and destroyed many shops.

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Notable Births

Louis Ignarro

1941Louis Ignarro, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Louis Joseph Ignarro is an American pharmacologist. For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad.

William Nordhaus

1941William Nordhaus, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

William Dawbney Nordhaus is an American economist. He was a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change, and a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Nordhaus received the prize "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis".

Historical Events

Anglo-Iraqi War

1941Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.[†]

The Anglo-Iraqi War was a British-led Allied military campaign during the Second World War against the Kingdom of Iraq, then ruled by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani who had seized power in the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état with assistance from Germany and Italy. The campaign resulted in the downfall of Gaylani's government, the re-occupation of Iraq by the British, and the return to power of the Regent of Iraq, Prince 'Abd al-Ilah, a British ally.