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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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 9, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 485,520 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 271 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 4,535 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 22 Historical Events
- 1807 –Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
- 1840 –The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
- 1871 –The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
- 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?
- 1891 –Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
- 1910 –Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d. 1985)
- 1934 –Peter Nero, American musician
- 1942 –Ted Kaczynski. American terrorist, known as the Unabomber
- 1944 –Vaiko, Indian politician
Who died on May 22?
- 1667 –Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
- 1932 –Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
- 1972 –Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
- 1975 –Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- 2005 –Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
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