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 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 9, 2022 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,653,177,600 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 ‘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 245 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 3,439 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 22 Historical Events
1176 –
The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
1377 –
Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
1762 –
Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
1807 –
Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
1816 –
A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
1848 –
Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
1897 –
The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
1942 –
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
1942 –
World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
2003 –
In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
Who were born on May 22?
1808 –
Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
1901 –
Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
1925 –
James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
1941 –
Sir Menzies Campbell, British politician
1950 –
Bernie Taupin, English songwriter
1955 –
Iva Davies, Australian rock star (Icehouse)
1968 –
Graham Linehan, Irish television writer and director (Black Books, The IT Crowd)
1977 –
Tom Chambers, British actor
1979 –
Maggie Q, American actress
1981 –
Melissa Gregory, American figure skater
Who died on May 22?
192 –
Dong Zhuo, Chancellor of Han (slain by his adoptive son Lü Bu) (b. 138)
1666 –
Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
1667 –
Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
1861 –
Thornsbury Bailey Brown, first Union soldier to be killed by a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War (b. 1829)
1966 –
Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
1972 –
Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (b. 1904)
1983 –
Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1998 –
José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
2004 –
Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2004 –
Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
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