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 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

  • 1762
    Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
  • 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.
  • 1816
    A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
  • 1826
    HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
  • 1863
    American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
  • 1871
    The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
  • 1960
    An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
  • 1964
    U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an “end to poverty and racial injustice” in America.
  • 1968
    The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
  • 2011
    An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing up to 161 people. It is the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.

Who were born on May 22?

  • 1823
    Isabella Glyn, British actress (d. 1889)
  • 1823
    Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
  • 1841
    Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
  • 1844
    Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
  • 1879
    Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
  • 1955
    Dale Winton, British radio DJ and television presenter
  • 1965
    Fanis Christodoulou, Greek basketball player
  • 1975
    Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice-hockey player
  • 1986
    Luca Gentili, Italian footballer
  • 1986
    Matt Jarvis, English footballer

Who died on May 22?

  • 1760
    Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
  • 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)
  • 1932
    Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
  • 1939
    Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
  • 1966
    Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
  • 1988
    Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
  • 1990
    Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
  • 1992
    Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
  • 2005
    Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)

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