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
- 334 BC –The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
- 1176 –The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
- 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.
- 1826 –HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
- 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”).
- 1897 –The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
- 1915 –Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
- 1915 –Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
- 1942 –Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
- 1942 –World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
- 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.
- 1967 –The L'Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
- 1980 –Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
- 1987 –First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park, Auckland.
- 1990 –North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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