About May 22
May 22, 2020 is the 143rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 266 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.
- 1762 –Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
- 1807 –A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1848 –Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
- 1871 –The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
- 1903 –Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
- 1906 –The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.
- 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.
- 1936 –Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1987 –First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park, Auckland.
- 1990 –Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
- 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.
- 1998 –Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
- 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.
- 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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