May 22

May 22 in recent years

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2022 (Sunday)

2021 (Saturday)

2020 (Friday)

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2018 (Tuesday)

2017 (Monday)

2016 (Sunday)

2015 (Friday)

May 22 is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 223 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 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
• 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.
• 1254 – Serbian King Stephen Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
• 1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
• 1455 – Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
• 1629 – Emperor Ferdinand II & 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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, England 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.
• 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.
• 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
• 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.
• 1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends with the Union unable to achieve any of its objectives.
• 1871 – The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
• 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.
• 1897 – The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
• 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 contiguous 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.
• 1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Kuomintang China
• 1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
• 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.
• 1942 – World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
• 1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern.
• 1945 – Operation Paperclip – United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S. evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1961 – An earthquake rocks New South Wales.
• 1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
• 1963 – Assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Gregoris Lambrakis, who will die five days afterwards.
• 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.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: Vinh Xuan massacre.
• 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.
• 1980 – Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
• 1987 – Hashimpura massacre in Meerut city of India.
• 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.
• 1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
• 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.
• 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 – In Washington, D.C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
• 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.
• 2003 – In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
• 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 miles (4.0 km) wide, which kills one resident.
• 2008 – The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.
• 2011 – An EF5 Tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri killing 161 people, the single deadliest tornado in the United States since modern record keeping began in 1950.
• 2012 – Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. Its the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).

Births

• 1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France (d. 1698)
• 1715 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
• 1724 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
• 1733 – Hubert Robert, French artist (d. 1808)
• 1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
• 1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Indian reformer (d. 1833)
• 1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the Electromagnet and Electric motor (d. 1850)
• 1808 – Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
• 1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
• 1823 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
• 1823 – Isabella Glyn, English actress (d. 1889)
• 1841 – Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
• 1844 – Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
• 1849 – Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
• 1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and writer (d. 1930)
• 1859 – Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese author (d. 1935)
• 1864 – Willy Stöwer, German artist (d. 1931)
• 1874 – Daniel François Malan, South African politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
• 1876 – Antonius Bouwens, Dutch sports shooter (d. 1963)
• 1879 – Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
• 1879 – Jean Cras, French composer and naval officer (d. 1932)
• 1885 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
• 1885 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
• 1887 – Frederick Garfield Gilmore, American featherweight boxer (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Eddie Edwards, American baseball player and musician (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (d. 1963)
• 1900 – Yvonne de Gaulle, French wife of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979)
• 1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, American politician, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
• 1902 – Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956)
• 1903 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
• 1904 – Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor (d. 1977)
• 1904 – Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962)
• 1907 – Hergé, Belgian writer and artist (d. 1983)
• 1907 – Martha Angelici, French soprano (d. 1973)
• 1907 – Laurence Olivier, English actor (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 1970)
• 1908 – Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963)
• 1910 – Johnny Olson, American television announcer (d. 1985)
• 1911 – Anatol Rapoport, Russian-American psychologist (d. 2007)
• 1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1913 – František Jílek, Czech conductor (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Maurice Blackburn, Canadian composer and conductor (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Vance Packard, American author (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Sun Ra, American composer, bandleader, pianist, poet, and philosopher (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Edward Arthur Thompson, English historian (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Nathan Davis, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1917 – Daniel Nagrin, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2008)
• 1917 – Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, Belgian politician (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
• 1923 – Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (d. 1976)
• 1924 – Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer-songwriter, actor, and activist
• 1925 – James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
• 1926 – Elek Bacsik, Hungarian bandleader and musician (d. 1993)
• 1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor
• 1927 – Phil Tucker, American director (d. 1985)
• 1928 – T. Boone Pickens, American businessman
• 1930 – Kenny Ball, English trumpet player (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Harvey Milk, American politician and activist (d. 1978)
• 1932 – Merry Anders, American actress
• 1934 – Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor
• 1934 – Arne Harris, American director and producer (d. 2001)
• 1935 – Ron Piché, Canadian baseball player
• 1936 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Guy Marchand, French actor and singer
• 1938 – Richard Benjamin, American actor
• 1938 – Frank Converse, American actor
• 1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1939 – Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1940 – Bernard Shaw, American journalist
• 1940 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
• 1941 – Sir Menzies Campbell, English politician
• 1941 – Martha Langbein, German athlete
• 1942 – Calvin Simon, American singer and musician (The Parliaments and Parliament-Funkadelic)
• 1942 – Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
• 1943 – Jean-Louis Heinrich, French footballer (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Tommy John, American baseball player
• 1943 – Gesine Schwan, German politician and educator
• 1943 – Betty Williams, Irish activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1944 – Beaton Tulk, Canadian educator, civil servant, and politician
• 1944 – Vaiko, Indian politician
• 1946 – Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager
• 1946 – George Best, Irish footballer (d. 2005)
• 1947 – Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1997)
• 1948 – Richard Baker, American politician
• 1950 – Alekos Alavanos, Greek politician
• 1950 – Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet
• 1950 – Bill Whelan, Irish musician, producer, and composer (Planxty)
• 1952 – Bernhard Brinkmann, German politician
• 1953 – Doris Barnett, German politician
• 1953 – Cha Bum-Kun, Korean footballer
• 1953 – Paul Mariner, English footballer and manager
• 1955 – Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band)
• 1955 – Dale Winton, English disc jockey and broadcaster
• 1955 – Jerry Dammers, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Specials and The Spatial AKA Orchestra)
• 1955 – Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (d. 2008)
• 1955 – Iva Davies, Australian singer and musician (Icehouse)
• 1956 – Al Corley, American actor and producer
• 1956 – Natasha Shneider, Russian-American singer, musician, and actress (Eleven) (d. 2008)
• 1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American politician
• 1957 – Gary Sweet, Australian actor
• 1958 – Denise Welch, English actress
• 1959 – Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and pianist (The Smiths, The Nosebleeds, and Slaughter & The Dogs)
• 1960 – Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
• 1961 – Mike Breen, American sportscaster
• 1961 – Ann Cusack, American actress
• 1962 – Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (d. 1997)
• 1964 – Mark Christopher Lawrence, American actor and comedian
• 1965 – Jay Carney, American journalist, 29th White House Press Secretary
• 1965 – Fanis Christodoulou, Greek basketball player
• 1965 – Catie Curtis, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1966 – Kenny Hickey, American singer-songwriter and musician (Type O Negative and Seventh Void)
• 1966 – Jose Mesa, Dominican baseball player
• 1966 – Scott Putski, American wrestler
• 1967 – Brooke Smith, American actress
• 1967 – John Vanderslice, American singer-songwriter and musician (Mk Ultra)
• 1968 – Randy Brown, American basketball player
• 1968 – Kevin Carolan, American actor and comedian
• 1968 – Graham Linehan, Irish actor, writer, and director
• 1968 – Pedro Bleyer, Bolivian fencer
• 1969 – Michael Joseph Kelly, American actor
• 1969 – Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American politician
• 1970 – Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
• 1970 – Pedro Diniz, Brazilian race car driver
• 1970 – Paddy Atkinson, English footballer and manager
• 1971 – Raimund Marasigan, Filipino singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Eraserheads, Sandwich, Pedicab, Cambio, and Project 1)
• 1972 – Anna Belknap, American actress
• 1972 – Alison Eastwood, American actress and model
• 1973 – Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
• 1973 – Julián Tavárez, Dominican baseball player
• 1973 – Danny Tiatto, Australian footballer
• 1974 – John Bale, American baseball player
• 1974 – Sean Gunn, American actor
• 1974 – Graham Fenton, English footballer
• 1974 – A. J. Langer, American actress
• 1975 – Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice-hockey player
• 1975 – Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer
• 1975 – Tracy Brookshaw, American wrestler and referee
• 1975 – Enrique Palacios, Venezuelan model
• 1976 – Daniel Erlandsson, Swedish musician (Arch Enemy, Eucharist, Armageddon, and Carcass)
• 1977 – Alastair Ralphs, Canadian bodybuilder and wrestler
• 1977 – Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Irish hurler
• 1977 – Dre Bly, American football player
• 1977 – Tom Chambers, English actor
• 1977 – Vinnie Potestivo, American talent agent and television producer
• 1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
• 1978 – Katie Price, English model, businesswoman, and author
• 1978 – Igor Kotjuh, Estonian poet and translator
• 1979 – Nadia Khan, Pakistani actress and producer
• 1979 – Maggie Q, American actress and model
• 1980 – Steven Baker, Australian rules footballer
• 1980 – Rhett Fisher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1980 – Chad Tracy, American baseball player
• 1980 – Tommy Smith, English footballer
• 1980 – Lucy Gordon, English actress and model (d. 2009)
• 1981 – Daniel Bryan, American wrestler
• 1981 – Melissa Gregory, American figure skater
• 1981 – Jana Hlaváčková, Czech tennis player
• 1981 – Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
• 1982 – Apolo Anton Ohno, American speed skater
• 1982 – Erin McNaught, Australian model and television host, Miss Australia 2006
• 1982 – Alex Smith, American football player
• 1982 – Hong Yong-Jo, North Korean footballer
• 1983 – John Hopkins, American motorcycle racer
• 1983 – Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1984 – Joe Lauzon, American mixed martial artist
• 1984 – Didier Ya Konan, Ivorian footballer
• 1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
• 1985 – Chrissie Chau, Chinese actress and model
• 1985 – Mauro Boselli, Argentine footballer
• 1985 – CariDee English, American model
• 1985 – Graham Harrell, American football player
• 1985 – Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Chris Salvatore, American singer-songwriter, actor, and activist
• 1986 – Luca Gentili, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Matt Jarvis, English footballer
• 1987 – Christine Danelson, American actress
• 1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
• 1987 – Vladimir Granat, Russian footballer
• 1987 – Andrew Lauterstein, Australian swimmer
• 1987 – Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
• 1987 – Cameron Sikes, Badass Mother F****r!
• 1988 – Chase Budinger, American basketball player
• 1988 – Pape M'Bow, Senegalese footballer
• 1991 – Nathan Norman, American actor, singer, and dancer (Devo 2.0)
• 1991 – Kyle Bartley, English footballer
• 1992 – Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo and ZYX)

Deaths

• 192 – Dong Zhuo, Chinese politician and warlord, Chancellor of Han (b. 138)
• 337 – Constantine the Great (b. 272)
• 748 – Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680)
• 985 – St. Bobo French Knight
• 1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
• 1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician
• 1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1406)
• 1457 – Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
• 1538 – John Forrest, English friar and martyr (b. 1471)
• 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
• 1666 – Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
• 1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
• 1745 – François Marie de Broglie, Duke of Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
• 1746 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
• 1760 – Israel ben Eliezer, Polish rabbi (b. 1700)
• 1772 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
• 1795 – Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
• 1802 – Martha Washington, American wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)
• 1851 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer and journalist (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 author (b. 1802)
• 1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
• 1910 – Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864)
• 1932 – Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
• 1939 – Ernst Toller, German author (b. 1893)
• 1939 – Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
• 1947 – Edwin Hedley, American rower (b. 1864)
• 1965 – Christopher Stone, English disc jockey and broadcaster (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (b. 1904)
• 1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
• 1985 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American Disney animator, director and producer (b. 1909)
• 1988 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 – Steven De Groote, South African pianist (b. 1953)
• 1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 1991 – Stan Mortensen, English footballer (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (b. 1930)
• 1998 – José Enrique Moyal, Israeli mathematical physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
• 1998 – John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926)
• 2000 – Davie Fulton, Canadian politician and judge (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabe-American arts trader, victim of police brutality
• 2004 – Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
• 2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
• 2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean 6th Director-General of World Health Organization (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Heather Crowe, Canadian waitress and activist (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Joseph Brooks, American composer, screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Muzaffar Ahmed, Bangladeshi economist and educator (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Janet Carroll, American actress (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Dave Mann, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Alan Thorne, Australian anthropologist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Jesse Whittenton, American football player (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances

• Abolition Day (Martinique)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Castus and Emilius
  • Fulk
  • Humilita
  • Julia of Corsica
  • Quiteria
  • Rita of Cascia
  • Romanus of Subiaco
  • May 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Harvey Milk Day (California)
• International Day for Biological Diversity (International)
• National Maritime Day (United States)
• National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)
• Republic Day (Sri Lanka)
• Unity Day or National Day, celebrate the unification of North and South Yemen into the Republic of Yemen in 1990.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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