What happened this day in history May 22

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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