What are the important events that happened on May 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 22: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 22 is the 142nd day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 9, 2017 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 415,392 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetracontadigon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 273 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,613 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 22 Historical Events
- 1816 –A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
- 1903 –Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
- 1915 –Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
- 1915 –Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
- 1960 –An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
- 1962 –Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
- 1964 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an “end to poverty and racial injustice” in America.
- 1997 –Kelly Flinn, US Air Force’s first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
- 2002 –American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
- 2011 –An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing up to 161 people. It is the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.
Who were born on May 22?
- 1885 –Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
- 1925 –James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
- 1927 –Phil Tucker, American director (d. 1985)
- 1952 –Bernhard Brinkmann, German politician
- 1970 –Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver
- 1978 –Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
- 1978 –Katie Price, British model and reality TV personality
- 1980 –Steven Baker, Australian Australian rules footballer
- 1981 –Melissa Gregory, American figure skater
- 1982 –Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
Who died on May 22?
- 1538 –John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (b. 1471)
- 1540 –Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
- 1745 –François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
- 1868 –Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
- 1965 –Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
- 1972 –Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
- 1997 –Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
- 1998 –José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
- 2006 –Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
- 2008 –Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
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