May 31 in history: • 455 – Petronius Maximus, the ruler of the Western Roman Empire, was stoned to death by a mob as he fled Rome before Vandal forces arrived and sacked the city. → go there • 1775 – American Revolution: The Committee of Safety of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves, which annulled and vacated all laws originating from the authority of the king or the Parliament of Great Britain. → go there • 1981 – An organized mob of police and government-sponsored Sinhalese paramilitary forces began three days of attacks that led to the burning of the Jaffna Public Library (renovated building pictured) in Sri Lanka, destroying more than 97,000 items in one of the most violent 20th-century examples of ethnic biblioclasm. → go there Died 1326: Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley Wiki link Born 1994: Jang Sel-gi Wiki link Died 2006: Raymond Davis Jr. Wiki link Died 2011: Derek Hodge Wiki link Pictured: Jaffna Public Library.