About May 22
May 22, 2024 is the 143rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.
What no one tells you about your first name’s personality. Are there magical powers in your given name? Check out Andrea’s personality today! (Sponsored links)
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 252 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
- 1455 –Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
- 1762 –Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
- 1840 –The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
- 1844 –Persian Prophet The Báb announces his revelation, founding Bábism. He announces to the world the coming of “He whom God shall make manifest”. He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
- 1856 –Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).
- 1871 –The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
- 1897 –The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
- 1939 –World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
- 1942 –Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
- 1942 –The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
- 1947 –Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 mi wide, which kills one resident.
- 2010 –Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway and crashes. 158 people are killed.
Do you drink coffee? Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Try this! Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters NLGSSUPOENU? Check your answers here: Word search NLGSSUPOENU. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
Share or Link to This Page: