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, 1,747,872,000 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 ‘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
- 1176 –The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
- 1762 –Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
- 1807 –A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
- 1807 –Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
- 1915 –Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
- 1942 –The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
- 1968 –The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
- 1980 –Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
- 1990 –Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
- 2008 –The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.
Who were born on May 22?
- 1927 –George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1935 –Ron Piché, Canadian baseball player
- 1941 –Martha Langbein, German athlete
- 1941 –Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1953 –Doris Barnett, German politician
- 1953 –Paul Mariner, English footballer & football manager
- 1958 –Denise Welch, English actress and presenter
- 1970 –Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver
- 1982 –Alex Smith, American football player
- 1993 –Ben Lewis, English photographer
Who died on May 22?
- 1457 –Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
- 1885 –Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
- 1939 –Ernst Toller, German author (b. 1893)
- 1939 –Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
- 1990 –Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
- 1991 –Stan Mortensen, English professional footballer (b. 1921)
- 1998 –José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
- 2005 –Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
- 2005 –Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
- 2008 –Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
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