May 22

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May 22 is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

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Events

334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.

192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.

853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys the undefended Damietta in Egypt.

1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.

1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.

1246 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV.

1254 – Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.

1370 – The Brussels massacre: Several Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels.

1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.

1455 – Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.

1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck to end the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.

1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.

1762 – Trevi Fountain in Rome is officially completed and inaugurated by Pope Clemens XIII.

1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.

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, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.

1812 – Action of 22 May 1812: A small French two-frigate squadron comprising Ariane and Andromaque, returning from a commerce raiding campaign in the Atlantic, meets the 74-gun HMS Northumberland while trying the slip to Lorient through the British blockade.

1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.

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 on June 20.

1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.

1840 – The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.

1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.

1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.

1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.

1863 – American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in US military history.

1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.

1872 – Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

1885 – Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was held under the Arc de Triomphe during the night.

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 contiguous US during the 20th century.

1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster 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.

1927 – Near Xining, China a 8.3 quake caused 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.

1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.

1941 – During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.

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.

1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.

1947 – Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, the U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law, after congressional approval, that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, both battling internal communist insurgencies.

1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 49 is adopted.

1958 – 1958 riots in Ceylon: 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 Tamils.

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.

1963 – Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt; he dies five days later.

1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society.

1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.

1967 – The L'Innovation department store in the center of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.

1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.

1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

1972 – Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Official Sinn Féin in Derry, North Ireland, following the shooting by the Official Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave who happened to be a local Catholic, William Best.

1987 – Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, India.

1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.

1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.

1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.

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 – African-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.

2005 – A Presidential election is held in Mongolia; the result is a victory for Nambaryn Enkhbayar of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP).

2008 – An EF3 tornado destroys the town of Windsor, Colorado just before noon, killing 1 person and injuring 78 others. It destroyed nearly $147 million worth of property, and is the 4th costliest disaster in the history of the State of Colorado.

2010 – An Air India Express Boeing 737 goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737.

2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion worth in damage—the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.

2012 – Tokyo Skytree is opened to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).

2014 – General Prayut Chan-o-cha of the Royal Thai Armed Forces announces a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.

2014 – An explosion occurs in the city of Ürümqi, the capital of China's far-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.

2015 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.

Births

626 – Itzam K'an Ahk I, Mayan king (d. 686)

1408 – Annamacharya, Hindu saint (d. 1503)

1539 – Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, English earl, politician and diplomat (d. 1621)

1558 – Françoise de Cezelli, French soldier (d. 1615)

1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor (d. 1698)

1644 – Gabriël Grupello, Flemish Baroque sculptor (d. 1730)

1650 – Richard Brakenburgh, Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1702)

1694 – Daniel Gran, Austrian painter (d. 1757)

1700 – Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, French painter and illustrator (d. 1785)

1715 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1794)

1733 – Hubert Robert, French painter (d. 1808)

1743 – Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, Spanish navigator (d. 1794)

1752 – Louis Legendre, French butcher and politician (d. 1797)

1762 – Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, English politician (d. 1834)

1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)

1777 – Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, Grandee of Spain (d. 1823)

1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Indian philosopher and reformer (d. 1833)

1782 – Hirose Tansō, Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer (d. 1856)

1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850)

1808 – Gérard de Nerval, French poet and translator (d. 1855)

1811 – Giulia Grisi, Italian soprano (d. 1869)

1811 – Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, English politician (d. 1864)

1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)

1814 – Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter (d. 1891)

1820 – Worthington Whittredge, American painter (d. 1910)

1828 – Albrecht von Graefe, German ophthalmologist and academic (d. 1870)

1831 – Henry Vandyke Carter, English anatomist and surgeon (d. 1897)

1833 – Félix Bracquemond, French painter and etcher (d. 1914)

1833 – Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Spanish politician; served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1871-73 (d. 1895)

1837 – Guillaume Fouace, French painter (d. 1895)

1841 – Hamilton Macallum, Scottish painter (d. 1896)

1841 – Catulle Mendès, French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1909)

1844 – Mary Cassatt, American painter and educator (d. 1926)

1846 – Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (d. 1908)

1848 – Fritz von Uhde, German painter and educator (d. 1911)

1849 – Aston Webb, English architect and academic (d. 1930)

1850 – Hildegard Thorell, Swedish painter (d. 1930)

1852 – Émile Sauret, French violinist and composer (d. 1920)

1858 – Belmiro de Almeida, Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor (d. 1935)

1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (d. 1930)

1859 – Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese author, playwright, and educator (d. 1935)

1864 – Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (d. 1931)

1868 – Augusto Pestana, Brazilian engineer and politician (d. 1934)

1874 – Daniel François Malan, South African clergyman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)

1876 – Julius Klinger, Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1942)

1879 – Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 1947)

1879 – Jean Cras, French admiral and composer (d. 1932)

1879 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian statesman and independence leader (d. 1926)

1880 – Francis de Miomandre, French author and translator (d. 1959)

1885 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (d. 1924)

1885 – Kansuke Naka, Japanese novelist (d. 1965)

1885 – Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)

1887 – Wilhelm Kaisen, German politician (d. 1979)

1891 – Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet (d. 1958)

1891 – Eddie Edwards, American baseball player and trombonist (d. 1963)

1894 – Friedrich Pollock, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1970)

1897 – Marcelle Meyer, French pianist (d. 1958)

1897 – Robert Neumann, German and English-speaking author (d. 1975)

1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, American politician, 6th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1953)

1902 – Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (d. 1956)

1903 – Yves Rocard, French physicist and academic (d. 1992)

1904 – Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989)

1905 – Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (d. 1956)

1905 – Tom Driberg, British politician (d. 1976)

1907 – Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1983)

1907 – Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (d. 1989)

1908 – Horton Smith. American golfer and captain (d. 1963)

1909 – Margaret Mee, English illustrator and educator (d. 1988)

1911 – Anatol Rapoport, Russian-American psychologist and academic (d. 2007)

1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

1913 – Rafael Gil, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 1986)

1913 – Dominique Rolin, Belgian author (d. 2012)

1914 – Max Kohnstamm, Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 2010)

1914 – Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet (d. 1993)

1916 – William C. Brown, American engineer (d. 1999)

1917 – George Aratani, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)

1917 – Jean-Louis Curtis, French author (d. 1995)

1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, Belgian businessman and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)

1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004)

1922 – Quinn Martin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1987)

1924 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor

1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991)

1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor

1927 – Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (d. 2014)

1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)

1928 – Serge Doubrovsky, French theorist and author

1928 – John Mackenzie, Scottish director and producer (d. 2011)

1928 – T. Boone Pickens, American businessman

1928 – Hiroshi Sano, Japanese novelist (d. 2013)

1929 – Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet (d. 2013)

1930 – Marisol Escobar, French-American sculptor

1930 – Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1978)

1932 – Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2015)

1933 – Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 1996)

1934 – Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor

1936 – George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. 2014)

1937 – Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)

1938 – Richard Benjamin, American actor and director

1938 – Dieter Dengler, German-American aviator

1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)

1939 – Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)

1940 – Kieth Merrill, American filmmaker

1940 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)

1940 – Bernard Shaw, American journalist

1941 – Menzies Campbell, Scottish sprinter and politician

1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber)

1942 – Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress

1943 – Tommy John, American baseball player and manager

1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate

1944 – John Flanagan, Australian fantasy author

1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 2005)

1946 – Michael Green, English physicist and academic

1946 – Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (d. 2015)

1946 – Andrei Marga, Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician

1948 – Tomás Sánchez, Cuban painter and engraver

1948 – Nedumudi Venu, Indian actor and screenwriter

1949 – Cheryl Campbell, English actress

1949 – Valentin Inzko, Austrian diplomat

1950 – Alekos Alavanos, Greek lawyer and politician

1950 – Irène Frain, French novelist and journalist

1950 – Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet

1950 – Bill Whelan, Irish composer and musician

1953 – Peter Bazalgette, English television producer

1953 – Roger Bellon, French composer

1953 – Cha Bum-kun, South Korean footballer and manager

1953 – Paul Mariner, English footballer, coach, and manager

1954 – Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate

1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American lawyer and politician

1959 – Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer

1959 – Kwak Jae-yong, South Korean director and screenwriter

1959 – Mehbooba Mufti, Indian politician

1960 – Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter

1962 – Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (d. 1997)

1965 – Jay Carney, American journalist, 29th White House Press Secretary

1966 – Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter and producer

1966 – Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese director and screenwriter

1968 – Ma Jun, Chinese environmentalist and journalist

1968 – Graham Linehan, Irish comedian, actor, and author

1968 – Simon Rumley, English director and screenwriter

1969 – Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American lawyer and politician

1970 – Naomi Campbell, English model

1972 – Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter

1973 – Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor

1973 – Danny Tiatto, Australian footballer

1974 – Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer

1974 – Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian Olympic gymnast

1974 – Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politician

1975 – Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer and manager

1975 – Cole Hauser, American actor

1976 – Christian Vande Velde, American cyclist

1977 – Dré Bly, American football player

1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress

1978 – Katie Price, English model, businesswoman, and author

1979 – Maggie Q, American actress

1980 – Nazanin Boniadi, Iranian-American actress

1980 – Lucy Gordon, British actress and model

1981 – Bassel Khartabil, Syrian computer programmer and engineer

1981 – Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player

1981 – Daniel Bryan, American wrestler

1982 – Apolo Ohno, American speed skater

1982 – Hong Yong-jo, North Korean footballer

1983 – Natasha Kai, American soccer player and Olympic medalist

1984 – Didier Ya Konan, Ivorian footballer

1984 – Dustin Moskovitz, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook

1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer

1985 – Mauro Boselli, Argentinian footballer

1985 – Tao Okamoto, Japanese model and actress

1986 – Matt Jarvis, English footballer

1986 – Thanduyise Khuboni, South African footballer

1986 – Tatiana Volosozhar, Russian figure skater

1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player

1987 – Vladimir Granat, Russian footballer

1987 – Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer

1988 – Chase Budinger, American basketball player

1991 – Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer

Deaths

192 – Dong Zhuo, Chinese warlord and politician (b. 138)

337 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (b. 272)

748 – Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 683)

1067 – Constantine X, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1006)

1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)

1310 – Saint Humility, founder of the Vallumbrosan Nuns (b. c. 1226)

1409 – Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V (b. 1392)

1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1406)

1455 – Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, Lancastrian commander (b. 1414)

1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English commander (b. 1393)

1457 – Rita of Cascia, Italian nun and saint (b. 1381)

1490 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, English administrator, nobleman and magnate (b. 1416)

1538 – John Forest, English friar and martyr (b. 1471)

1540 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (b. 1483)

1545 – Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (b. 1486)

1553 – Giovanni Bernardi, Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1495)

1602 – Renata of Lorraine (b. 1544)

1609 – Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff, Dutch captain (b. 1573)

1666 – Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)

1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)

1745 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general (b. 1671)

1760 – Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and author (b. 1700)

1772 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian and academic (b. 1687)

1795 – Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (b. 1725)

1851 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755)

1859 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)

1861 – Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829)

1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)

1885 – Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)

1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)

1910 – Jules Renard, French author and playwright (b. 1864)

1932 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)

1933 – Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)

1938 – William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)

1939 – Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)

1939 – Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)

1954 – Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)

1965 – Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)

1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)

1967 – Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)

1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)

1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)

1975 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)

1982 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)

1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

1985 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)

1988 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)

1989 – Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (b. 1953)

1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)

1991 – Shripad Amrit Dange, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899)

1991 – Stan Mortensen, English footballer and manager (b. 1921)

1992 – Zellig Harris, American linguist and academic (b. 1909)

1993 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892)

1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)

1998 – John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926)

1998 – José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910)

2000 – Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)

2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)

2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)

2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)

2006 – Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945)

2007 – Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970)

2008 – Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (b. 1946)

2010 – Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914)

2011 – Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938)

2012 – Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1970)

2012 – Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927)

2013 – Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922)

2015 – Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)

2015 – Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (b. 1921)

2016 – Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

Abolition Day (Martinique)

Christian feast day:

Castus and Emilius

Fulk

Humilita

Michael Hồ Đình Hy (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)

Quiteria

Rita of Cascia

Romanus of Subiaco

May 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Harvey Milk Day (California)

International Day for Biological Diversity (International)

United States National Maritime Day

National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)

Republic Day (Sri Lanka)

Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari (Ukraine)

Unity Day (Yemen), celebrates the unification of North and South Yemen into the Republic of Yemen in 1990.

World Goth Day

References

May 22 Wikipedia

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