About May 22
May 22, 2023 is the 142nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 264 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 22
- 1176 –The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
- 1455 –Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
- 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.
- 1840 –The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
- 1843 –Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.
- 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”).
- 1863 –American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
- 1872 –Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
- 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.
- 1960 –An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
- 1962 –Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
- 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.
- 1969 –Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon’s surface.
- 1987 –First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park, Auckland.
- 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.
- 2003 –In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
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