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
- 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.
- 1816 –A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
- 1826 –HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
- 1840 –The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1962 –Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2010 –Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway and crashes. 158 people are killed.
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