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 143rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 9, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,716,336,000 seconds 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 ‘hectatetracontatrigon’ day.
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 252 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 4,170 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 22 Historical Events
1807 –
A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1809 –
On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
1843 –
Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.
1856 –
Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).
1903 –
Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
1958 –
Sri Lankan riots of 1958: This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils.
1969 –
Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon’s surface.
1990 –
North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
1992 –
After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
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.
Who were born on May 22?
1823 –
Isabella Glyn, British actress (d. 1889)
1904 –
Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor (d. 1977)
1922 –
Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
1925 –
Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
1936 –
M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
1941 –
Martha Langbein, German athlete
1943 –
Tommy John, American baseball player
1953 –
Paul Mariner, English footballer & football manager
1967 –
John Vanderslice, American musician
1970 –
Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver
Who died on May 22?
1068 –
Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
1540 –
Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
1851 –
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
1861 –
Thornsbury Bailey Brown, first Union soldier to be killed by a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War (b. 1829)
1885 –
Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
1988 –
Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
1989 –
Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953)
1997 –
Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
2005 –
Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
2008 –
Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
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