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, 29,131,200 minutes 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
- 1254 –Serbian King Stephen Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
- 1377 –Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
- 1807 –Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
- 1848 –Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
- 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”).
- 1962 –Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
- 1972 –Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1990 –Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
- 2003 –In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
- 2010 –Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway and crashes. 158 people are killed.
Who were born on May 22?
- 1879 –Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
- 1907 –Hergé, Belgian comic-book creator (d. 1983)
- 1922 –Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
- 1930 –Kenny Ball, British musician
- 1944 –Vaiko, Indian politician
- 1953 –Cha Bum-Kun, Korean footballer
- 1961 –Ann Cusack, American actress
- 1976 –Daniel Erlandsson, drummer of Swedish death metal band Arch Enemy
- 1985 –Graham Harrell, American football player
- 1985 –Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
Who died on May 22?
- 985 –Saint Bobo of Provence
- 1540 –Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
- 1666 –Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
- 1939 –Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
- 1965 –Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
- 1967 –Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
- 1972 –Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
- 1975 –Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- 2004 –Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
- 2006 –Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
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