On This Day: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 This is the 151st day of the year, with 214 days remaining in 2005. Holidays Feast day of St Petronilla, Saints Cantius, Cantianus, Cantianella, and Protus, and St Mechtildi of Edelstetten. Events 1043 - Lady Godiva rode naked through the market square in Coventry, England. 1790 - President George Washington signed the first US copyright law, giving 14 years' protection to books wirtten by US citizens. 1868 - The first Memorial Day parade took place in Ironton, OH. 1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg applied for a patent for flaked cereal. 1889 - More than 2,000 people perished when a neglected dam broke in Johnstown, PA. The town was almost completely destroyed 1902 - Great Britain and the Boer states signed the Treaty of Vereeniging, officially ending the 3.5-year Boer War. 1961 - South Africa became an independent republic. 1977 - The Alaska oil pipeline, three years in the making, was completed. 1990 - "Seinfeld" premiered on TV. Births 1819 - Walt Whitman, US poet, essayist. 1898 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman, radio ministry, author. 1908 - Don Ameche (Dominic Amici), Academy Award-winning actor. 1923 - Prince Rainer III of Monaco. Deaths 1962 - Adolf Eichmann, executed in Israel