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  31st May 2019

  Today in History: 31st May

  1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope. 1837 Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria. 1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition. 1879 Madison Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th President James Madison. 1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents “flaked cereal”. 1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg. 1902 Boer…