22 Mey

The 22nt o Mey is the 142nt day o the year (143rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 223 days ti come.

Aprile	Days in Mey	Juin
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31

Events

1960: Yirdquauk an tsunami damage in Chile

2015: Poster in the Republic o Ireland in favour o mairage equality

• 1370 - Several Jews are massacred in in Brussels.
• 1762 - Swaden an Roushie sign the Treaty o Hamburg.
• 1826 - The ship "HMS Beagle" leaves on its first voyage.
• 1848 - Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
• 1902 - Crater Lake Naitional Pairk is creatit in the US state o Oregon.
• 1915 - The Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green in the sooth o Scotland kills 227 fowk as three trains collide.
• 1927 - A yirdquauk in Qinghai, Cheenae, kills ower 200,000 fowk.
• 1942 - Warld War II: Mexico enters the war for the Allies.
• 1960 - The 1960 Valdivia yirdquauk, the strongest yirdquauk measured at magnitude 9.5, hits Chile. Tsunamis also hit Chile an ither kintras aroond the Paceefic Ocean.
• 1972 - Sri Lanka becomes a republic.
• 1972 - US Preses Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for talks wi poleetical leaders in the Soviet Union.
• 1981 - Peter Sutcliffe, the serial killer kent as the "Yorkshire Ripper", is sent tae preeson for life.
• 1990 - Yemen is unitit.
• 1998 - Twa referendums (yin in the Republic o Ireland an yin in Norlan Ireland) wis haudit on the Guid Frydey Greeance fur paix
• 2004 - Manmohan Singh becomes Prime meenister o Indie.
• 2010 - Air India Express Flicht 812 crashes at Mangalore in soothren Indie, killin 158 fowk, while 8 survive.
• 2013 - Breetish sodger Lee Rigby is murthert on a street in Woolwich, Lunnon.
• 2014 - The Ryal Thai armed forces stage a coup d'etat.
• 2015 - In a referendum on same-sex mairage, a majority (62%) o voters in the Republic o Ireland vote in favour o the change.
• 2016 - Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly defeats far-richt candidate Norbert Hofer in the Austrick Presidential walin. He also defeats Hofer in the re-run in December.
• 2017 - 2017 Manchester Arena bombin: A suicide bomber detonates an explosive device at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, efter an Ariana Grande concert, killin 22 fowk.
• 2019 - Andrea Leadsom demits as Leader o the UK Hoose o Commons ower disagreements wi Theresa May's Brexit strategy.

Births

Arthur Conan Doyle

• 1813 - Richard Wagner, German componer (d. 1883)
• 1844 - Mary Cassatt, American penter (d. 1926)
• 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scots medicinar an writer (d. 1930)
• 1907 - Laurence Olivier, Inglis actor (d. 1989)
• 1907 - Hergé, Belgian writer an illustrator (d. 1983)
• 1924 - Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian sangster, actor an diplomat (d. 2018)
• 1927 - Peter Matthiessen, American novelist (d. 2014)
• 1928 - T. Boone Pickens, American businessman an financier
• 1941 - Menzies Campbell, Scots politeecian
• 1942 - Theodore Kaczynski, American murtherer
• 1943 - Betty Williams, Northren Erse activist
• 1946 - George Best, Northren Erse fitbawer (d. 2005)
• 1954 - Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American electronic ingineer
• 1959 - Morrissey, Inglis sangster
• 1970 - Naomi Campbell, Inglis model
• 1972 - Marine Joatton, French airtist
• 1974 - Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politeecian
• 1978 - Katie Price, Inglis model an telly personality
• 1978 - Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
• 1987 - Novak Djokovic, Serbie profeesional tennis player an current Warld No. 1.
• 1987 - Arturo Vidal, Chilean fitbawer

Daiths

• 337 - Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (b. 272)
• 1667 - Pape Alexander VII (b. 1599)
• 1802 - Martha Washington, First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1731)
• 1885 - Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist an playwricht (b. 1802)
• 1967 - Langston Hughes, American poet, novelist an playwricht (b. 1902)

Halidays

• Republic Day (Sri Lanka)

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