About May 22

May 22, 2025 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.

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Gemini is the sun 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.

What Happened On May 22

  • 853 –
    A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt
  • 1176 –
    The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
  • 1254 –
    Serbian King Stephen Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
  • 1807 –
    Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
  • 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.
  • 1819 –
    The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.
  • 1826 –
    HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
  • 1871 –
    The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
  • 1903 –
    Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
  • 1936 –
    Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
  • 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.
  • 1962 –
    Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
  • 1963 –
    Assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Gregoris Lambrakis, who will die five days afterwards.
  • 1968 –
    The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
  • 1972 –
    Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • 1987 –
    Hashimpura massacre in Meerut city of India.
  • 1992 –
    After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
  • 1992 –
    Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
  • 1997 –
    Kelly Flinn, US Air Force’s first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
  • 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.

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