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Samuel Pepys' Last Diary Entry
May 31 Citing poor eyesight, English civil servant Samuel Pepys records the last entry in his famous diary
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- May 26 Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist, born in Vigny, Île-de-France, France (d. 1722)
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