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Events on the 22nd of May in history

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22 May 0012 -BC- A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China
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22 May 0334 The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
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22 May 0760 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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22 May 0853 A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
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22 May 1176 Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo
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22 May 1176 The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
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22 May 1200 King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
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22 May 1200 Peace of Goulet
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22 May 1246 Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV.
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22 May 1254 Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
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22 May 1370 Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium
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22 May 1377 Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1455 Open battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses (St Albans)
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22 May 1455 Richard of York takes St Albans, kidnapping King Henry VI
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22 May 1526 Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence & Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac
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22 May 1570 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published
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22 May 1594 Earl Mauritius & Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1629 Emperor Ferdinand II & Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of L
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22 May 1659 France, England and Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty
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22 May 1712 Emperor Karel VI crowned king of Hungary
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22 May 1746 Russia & Austria signs treaty of cooperation
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22 May 1761 1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Philadelphia
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22 May 1762 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
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22 May 1762 Trevi Fountain in Rome is officially completed and inaugurated by Pope Clemens XIII.
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22 May 1762 Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
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22 May 1784 Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy
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22 May 1803 1st public library opens (Connecticut)
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22 May 1807 A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
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22 May 1807 Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire.
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22 May 1807 Former Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond VA (acquitted)
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22 May 1807 Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Philadelphia)
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22 May 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.
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1816 A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1819 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (leaves Savannah GA)
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22 May 1826 HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
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22 May 1836 Felix Mendelssohn's oratorium "St Paul" premieres in D
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22 May 1840 The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
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22 May 1843 1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon
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22 May 1848 Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1849 Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device
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22 May 1856 Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
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22 May 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").
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22 May 1856 Violence in Senate, South Carolina Representative Brooks used a cane on Massachusetts Senator Sumner
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22 May 1858 Confederaci
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22 May 1863 American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson: Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
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22 May 1863 General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg
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22 May 1863 War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1864 Battle of North Anna River VA (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown)
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22 May 1868 Great Train Robbery; 7 men (Reno Brothers) make off with $98,000 in cash
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22 May 1871 The U.S. Army issues an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
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22 May 1872 Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
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22 May 1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
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22 May 1877 3rd Kentucky Derby: Billy Walker aboard Baden-Baden wins in 2:38
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22 May 1883 Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strike-outs
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22 May 1884 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
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22 May 1885 Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was exposed under the Arc de Triomphe during the night.
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22 May 1885 13th Preakness: Jim McLaughlin aboard Tecumseh wins in 2:49
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22 May 1888 Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers
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22 May 1891 1st motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs
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22 May 1892 Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube
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22 May 1893 Montreal Athletic Association beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game
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22 May 1893 Montr
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22 May 1897 The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
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22 May 1900 Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative
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22 May 1900 Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player
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22 May 1902 36th Belmont Stakes: John Bullman aboard Mastermam wins in 2:22.6
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22 May 1903 Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
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22 May 1905 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
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22 May 1906 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
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22 May 1906 The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
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22 May 1906 10th anniversary of Olympics, celebration held in Athens, Greece
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22 May 1906 31st Preakness: Walter Miller aboard Whimsical wins in 1:45
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22 May 1906 Wright Brothers patent an aeroplane
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22 May 1907 Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Middlesex vs Somerset
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22 May 1909 1st San Fransisco fireboat, David Scannell, launched
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22 May 1911 Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row
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22 May 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.
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
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22 May 1916 French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun
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22 May 1923 Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier
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22 May 1924 In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
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22 May 1926 "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1
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22 May 1926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Kuomintang, China.
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22 May 1926 Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop
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22 May 1927 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed
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22 May 1927 Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
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22 May 1928 US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act
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22 May 1930 Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game
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22 May 1930 Ruth hits 3 consecutive homeruns (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
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22 May 1930 Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 homeruns in a game
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22 May 1931 Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida
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22 May 1933 Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay
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22 May 1933 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated
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22 May 1938 Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field
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22 May 1939 Hitler and Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"
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22 May 1939 World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
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22 May 1939 Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"
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22 May 1940 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with Nazis
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22 May 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies to Paris
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22 May 1941 British troops attack Baghdad
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22 May 1942 Mexico declares war on Nazi-Germany and Japan
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22 May 1942 Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
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22 May 1942 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
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22 May 1942 World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
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22 May 1942 M
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22 May 1943 RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"
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22 May 1943 Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern.
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22 May 1943 1st jet fighter is tested
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22 May 1943 Stalin disbands Komintern
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1945 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
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22 May 1945 NSB-F
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22 May 1946 Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3
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22 May 1947 "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece
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22 May 1947 Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, the 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.
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22 May 1947 1st US ballistic missile fired
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22 May 1950 Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
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22 May 1950 Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
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22 May 1950 Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London
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22 May 1953 President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill
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22 May 1953 Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yankees beat Washington 12-4
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22 May 1954 80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4
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22 May 1954 KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
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22 May 1954 Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
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22 May 1955 Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th
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22 May 1956 "Bob Hope Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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22 May 1956 "Bob Hope Show" last airs on NBC-TV
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22 May 1956 KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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22 May 1957 KBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
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22 May 1957 Red Sox set American League record by smashing 4 homeruns in 6th inning in 11-0 win
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22 May 1957 South Africa Government approves race separation in universities
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1959 Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general-major in USAF
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22 May 1960 Virtually all coastal towns between 37th and 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1961 "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1
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22 May 1961 "Touchables In Brooklyn" by Dickie Goodman hits #42
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22 May 1961 An earthquake rocks New South Wales.
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22 May 1961 "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1
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22 May 1961 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Space Needle in Seattle), opens
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22 May 1962 Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
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22 May 1962 14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth
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22 May 1962 Netherlands telephone net becomes completely automated
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22 May 1962 Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600 meters
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22 May 1962 Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inning game
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22 May 1963 Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis, is shot and dies five days later.
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22 May 1963 A C Milan wins 8th Europe Cup 1 at London
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22 May 1963 Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured
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22 May 1963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
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22 May 1964 LBJ presents "Great Society"
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22 May 1964 The 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.
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22 May 1964 LBJ presents "Great Society"
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22 May 1965 "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66
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22 May 1965 Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" single goes #1
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22 May 1965 Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champion
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22 May 1966 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
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22 May 1966 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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22 May 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.
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22 May 1967 "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuts on NET (now PBS)
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22 May 1967 Egyptian president Nasser closes Straits of Tiran to Israel
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22 May 1967 Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
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22 May 1968 The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
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22 May 1968 Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 homeruns, a double & a single
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22 May 1969 Apollo 10 's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
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22 May 1969 Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 miles (15km) above lunar surface
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22 May 1970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
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22 May 1970 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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22 May 1970 Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
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22 May 1972 Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
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22 May 1972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
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22 May 1972 Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion
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22 May 1972 US President Nixon begins visit Moscow
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22 May 1973 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
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22 May 1973 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up
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22 May 1974 Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later
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22 May 1974 Soccer team Veendam forms
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22 May 1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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22 May 1975 8th ABA Championship: Kentucky Colonels beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1
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22 May 1976 NASA launches space vehicle S-179
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22 May 1976 St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 homeruns
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22 May 1977 Final European scheduled run of the Orient Express (94 years)
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22 May 1977 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
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22 May 1977 Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game homerun record of 11
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22 May 1979 Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau
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22 May 1979 Commencement of 1st ICC Trophy (PNG vs East Africa & Singapore vs Argentina)
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22 May 1980 Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
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22 May 1980 Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry
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22 May 1981 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
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22 May 1983 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Tournament
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22 May 1983 Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit homerun
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22 May 1985 Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader
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22 May 1985 Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid
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22 May 1985 US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR
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22 May 1986 Cher called David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC
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22 May 1987 Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, India.
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22 May 1987 First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
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22 May 1987 30 killed in a Texas tornado
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22 May 1988 34th LPGA Championship won by Sherri Turner
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22 May 1988 K
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22 May 1990 Final episode of "Newhart" airs
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22 May 1990 North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
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22 May 1990 Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
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22 May 1990 Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times
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22 May 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,852.23
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22 May 1990 Microsoft releases Windows 3.0
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22 May 1990 North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen
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22 May 1991 Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome
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22 May 1991 NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994
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22 May 1991 Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea
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22 May 1992 After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
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22 May 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
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22 May 1992 California Angels are involved in a bus crash in New Jersey
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22 May 1992 India launches its Agni rocket
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22 May 1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show
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22 May 1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 May 1994 Toronto NBA franchise unveils name "Raptors" andlogo
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22 May 1994 Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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22 May 1994 Toronto NBA franchise unveils name "Raptors" & logo
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22 May 1995 Laverne & Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised
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22 May 1996 "Tartuffe: Born Again, " opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 29 performances
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22 May 1996 Emmy 23rd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 16th time
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22 May 1997 Kelly Flinn, the US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court-martial.
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22 May 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.
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22 May 2002 In Washington, D.C., the remains of Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
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22 May 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.
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22 May 2003 In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
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22 May 2004 The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) which kills one resident, and becomes the widest tornado on record at 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide; a record that wouldn't be broken until a the El Reno tornado on May 31, 2013.
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22 May 2005 A Presidential election is held in Mongolia; the result is a victory for Nambaryn Enkhbayar of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP).
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22 May 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 strike 19 states and one Canadian province.
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22 May 2009 The Credit CARD Act of 2009 was signed into U.S. law by the President, Barack Obama.
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22 May 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.
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22 May 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.
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22 May 2012 Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. It is the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
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22 May 2014 General Prayut Chan-o-cha of the Royal Thai Armed Forces announces a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
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22 May 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.
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