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.
- 853 –A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt
- 1807 –A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
- 1807 –Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
- 1816 –A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1939 –World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
- 1942 –World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1968 –The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
- 1987 –Hashimpura massacre in Meerut city of India.
- 1990 –North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
- 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.
- 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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