May 22
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May 22 is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
- 1715 - Francois-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
- 1724 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
- 1733 - Hubert Robert, French artist (d. 1808)
- 1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
- 1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
- 1781 - Newton Cannon, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1841)
- 1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (d. 1850)
- 1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
- 1823 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
- 1833 - Felix Bracquemond, French painter (d. 1914)
- 1844 – Mary Cassatt, American painter (d. 1926)
- 1849 - Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
- 1859 - Tsubouchi Shoyo, Japanese author (d. 1935)
- 1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (Sherlock Holmes) (d. 1930)
- 1874 – Daniel Francois Malan, Apartheid-era Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
- 1876 - Antonius Bouwens, Dutch sports shooter (d. 1963)
- 1879 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian actress, scriptwriter and politician (d. 1945)
- 1879 - Jean Cras, French composer and naval officer (d. 1932)
- 1885 - Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
- 1885 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
- 1900 – Yvonne de Gaulle, First Lady of France (d. 1979)
- 1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
- 1903 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
- 1904 – Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor (d. 1977)
- 1907 – Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1983)
- 1907 – Laurence Olivier, British actor (d. 1989)
- 1911 - Anatol Rapoport, Russian-American psychologist (d. 2007)
- 1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist (d. 2004)
- 1914 – Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1917 - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
- 1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)
- 1920 - Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor
- 1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
- 1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist
- 1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor
- 1930 – Harvey Milk, American politician (d. 1978)
- 1930 – Marisol Escobar, American artist
- 1937 - Guy Marchand, French actor and director
- 1938 - Richard Benjamin, American actor and film director
- 1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1941 – Menzies Campbell, British politician
- 1942 - Calvin Simon, American singer and musician
- 1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American terrorist, the 'Unabomber'
- 1943 – Gesine Schwan, German politician
- 1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist
- 1945 - Piero Ferrari, Italian businessman
- 1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
- 1950 - Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet
- 1953 – Cha Bum-Kun, South Korean footballer
- 1953 - Paul Mariner, English football manager
- 1955 – Dale Winton, British television and radio presenter
- 1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American politician
- 1958 – Denise Welch, British actress
- 1959 – Steven Morrissey, British singer
- 1960 - Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator and film director
- 1964 - Mark Christopher Lawrence, American actor and comedian
- 1965 - Jay Carney, American journalist
- 1966 – Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
- 1969 - Michael Kelly, American actor
- 1970 – Naomi Campbell, British model
- 1972 - Alison Eastwood, American actress and model
- 1975 - Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1976 - Daniel Erlandsson, Swedish musician
- 1976 – Lee Hughes, English footballer
- 1978 – Katie Price, British model and television personality
- 1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
- 1980 – Lucy Gordon, British actress (d. 2009)
- 1980 - Robert Gunnarsson, Icelandic handball player
- 1981 – Juergen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
- 1981 – Melissa Gregory, American figure skater
- 1982 - Erin McNaught, Australian model and television host
- 1983 – Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
- 1983 – John Hopkins, American motorcycle racer
- 1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
- 1985 – Chris Salvatore, American actor, singer-songwriter, model and same-sex rights activist
- 1986 – Matt Jarvis, English footballer
- 1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
- 1987 – Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
- 1988 - Chris Budinger, American actress
- 1991 - Kyle Bartley, English footballer
- 1992 - Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer
Deaths [change]
- 192 - Dong Zhuo, Chinese politician and warlord (b. 138)
- 337 – Constantine I of the Roman Empire, Roman emperor (b. 272)
- 748 – Emperor Gensho of Japan (b. 680)
- 985 – Saint Bobo of Provence
- 1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
- 1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician
- 1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1406)
- 1457 - Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
- 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini (b. 1483)
- 1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
- 1746 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
- 1795 - Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
- 1802 - Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)
- 1859 – Emperor Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
- 1861 – Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829)
- 1873 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian footballer (b. 1785)
- 1885 – Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
- 1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian anarchist (b. 1869)
- 1910 - Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864)
- 1939 – Ernst Toller, German author
- 1939 – Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
- 1949 – Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
- 1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
- 1967 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
- 1970 - Goodwin Knight, 31st Governor of California (b. 1896)
- 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer (b. 1904)
- 1972 – Margaret Rutherford, actress (b. 1892)
- 1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (b. 1899)
- 1985 - Wolfgang Reithermann, German-American Disney animator, director and producer (b. 1909)
- 1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
- 1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
- 1992 – Zellig Harris, linguist (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist (b. 1908)
- 1998 – John Derek, American actor, director and photographer (b. 1926)
- 2004 – Richard Biggs, actor (b. 1960)
- 2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
- 2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Julia Randall, poet (b. 1924)
- 2006 – Lee Jong-wook, South Korean Director-General of the WHO (b. 1945)
- 2010 – Martin Gardner, American author (b. 1914)
- 2013 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer (b. 1916)
Events [change]
- 334 BC - The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia.
- 337 (AD) - Roman Emperor Constantine I dies.
- 853 - A Byzantine Empire fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
- 1176 - The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo, present-day Syria.
- 1200 - King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
- 1246 - Henry Raspe is elected Anti-King of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV of Germany.
- 1455 – Wars of the Roses: In the first Battle of St. Albans, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
- 1629 - Thirty Years' War: The Treaty of Luebeck is signed by Ferdinand IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Christian IV of Denmark to end Danish intervention in the war.
- 1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
- 1807 - Most of the town of Chudleigh in Devon, southwest England, is destroyed by fire.
- 1809 - Napoleonic Wars: Second day of the Battle of Apern-Essling.
- 1819 – The SS Savannah sets sail from Savannah, Georgia to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1826 – HMS Beagle setsv sail on its first voyage.
- 1840 - Transportation of British convicts to New South Wales is banned.
- 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
- 1849 - Abraham Lincoln is given a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river. As he later becomes US President in 1861, he is the only President of the United States to be granted a patent.
- 1902 – The Crater Lake National Park in Oregon is created by Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1906 - The Wright brothers are given a patent for their "Flying Machine".
- 1915 – Lassen Peak in California erupts. Along with the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980, this is one of only two volcanic eruptions in the contigious United States in the 20th Century.
- 1915 – The Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, southern Scotland, kills 227 people.
- 1927 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.9 strikes Tsinghai, China, killing around 200,000 people.
- 1939 – Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
- 1942 – World War II: Mexico enters the war on the side of the Allies.
- 1946 – Shigeru Yoshida is elected Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1960 – A major earthquake and a series of Tsunamis hit Chile. The effects are felt as far away as Hawaii where the town of Hilo is hit by a Tsunami. (See Great Chilean Earthquake).
- 1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board, killing all 45 people on board.
- 1967 - The L'Innovation Department Store fire in Brussels, Belgium, kills 323 people and injures 150.
- 1967 - Vietnam War: Vinh Xuan massacre.
- 1971 – An earthquake in Anatolia, Turkey, kills around 1,000 people.
- 1972 – Ceylon changes its name to Sri Lanka, becomes a Republic, and adopts a new constitution.
- 1972 – Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders.
- 1980 – Pac-Man is released in Japan.
- 1981 – The Yorkshire Ripper serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is jailed for life.
- 1987 – The first-ever Rugby World Cup begins in Auckland. Host country New Zealand defeats Italy in the opening match.
- 1990 – Yemen becomes a united country.
- 1990 - Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
- 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the UN.
- 1992 – Johnny Carson hosts the The Tonight Show for the last time.
- 1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes Bolivia, killing 105 people.
- 2003 – The final manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was annotated by the composer, is auctioned off for $3.47 million.
- 2004 – Manmohan Singh becomes Prime Minister of India.
- 2004 – Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a Force 4 tornado.
- 2004 - In Spain, Felipe, Prince of Asturias marries Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
- 2010 – An Air India Express Flight 812 airplane overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Mangalore, southern India, killing 158 people. 8 people survive.
- 2011 – A tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing at least 158 people.
- 2012 - The Tokyo Skytree is opened to the public in Japan. It is the tallest free-standing tower and second-tallest freestanding man-made structure in the world, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Observances [change]
- Republic Day (Sri Lanka)
- Unity Day or National Day (Yemen)
- National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)
- International Day for Biological Diversity
- Harvey Milk Day (California)
- National Maritime Day (United States)
- Abolition Day (Martinique)
