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)
- 1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
- 1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
- 1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (d. 1850)
- 1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
- 1823 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
- 1844 – Mary Cassatt, American painter (d. 1926)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist (d. 2004)
- 1914 – Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)
- 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
- 1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1941 – Menzies Campbell, British politician
- 1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American terrorist, the 'Unabomber'
- 1943 – Gesine Schwan, German politician
- 1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist
- 1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
- 1953 – Cha Bum-Kun, South Korean footballer
- 1955 – Dale Winton, British television and radio presenter
- 1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American politician
- 1958 – Denise Welch, British actress
- 1959 – Steven Morrissey, British singer
- 1966 – Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
- 1970 – Naomi Campbell, British model
- 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)
- 1981 – Juergen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
- 1981 – Melissa Gregory, American figure skater
- 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
Deaths [change]
- 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)
- 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini (b. 1483)
- 1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
- 1746 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer (b. 1904)
- 1972 – Margaret Rutherford, actress (b. 1892)
- 1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (b. 1899)
- 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)
Events [change]
- 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.
- 1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
- 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.
- 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
- 1902 – The Crater Lake National Park in Oregon is created by Theodore Roosevelt.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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)
