May 31, 2003

Eric Robert Rudolph, a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics and other bombings in the Atlanta, Georgia area, is arrested in the woods of North Carolina [1]
United States President George W. Bush visits the location of the former death camp at Auschwitz. He is only the second president to do so, after Gerald Ford toured the camp in 1975.
The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place, landing at Charles de Gaulle Airport. British Airways plans to retire its Concorde fleet at the end of October. [2]
Peter MacKay is elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, replacing retiring leader Joe Clark.