This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
05/22/1671 Abraham Patras, governor-general of East-Indies (1735-37) 
05/22/1722 Johannes Schmidlin, composer 
05/22/1759 Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer 
05/22/1780 Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer 
05/22/1783 Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer 
05/22/1804 John William (Turk) Livingston, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885

05/22/1813 Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman) 
05/22/1820 Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer 
05/22/1821 Alfred Sully, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879 
05/22/1828 Albrecht Gr„fe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology 
05/22/1844 Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing) 
05/22/1850 Johann Schrammel, composer 
05/22/1852 Emile Sauret, composer 
05/22/1859 Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice 
05/22/1865 Enrique Morera, composer 
05/22/1874 Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54) 
05/22/1874 Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer 
05/22/1879 Eastwood Lane, composer 
05/22/1879 Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer 
05/22/1884 Alceo Toni, composer 
05/22/1885 Julio Fonseca, composer 
05/22/1891 Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college pres (Univ of Calif) 
05/22/1892 Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk Up to High C) 
05/22/1895 Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, spiritual philosopher (Songs of Life) 
05/22/1898 Ren‚ de Fox, actor/composer 
05/22/1902 Al Simmons, Milwaukee, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334

05/22/1904 Anne de Vries, writer (Bartje) 
05/22/1906 Harry Ritz, US comic (Ritz Brothers-Silent Movie) 
05/22/1907 Herg‚, [Georges R‚mi], Belgian cartoonist (Kuifje) 
05/22/1907 Laurence Olivier, actor (Rebecca, Hamlet, Jazz Singer) 
05/22/1911 Anatol Rapoport, Russ/US mathem/biologist (olympic theory) 
05/22/1912 Henry Cuckoo, Second-Member of Dutch parliament (Boer Party) 
05/22/1914 Vance Packard, US sociologist (Hidden Persueders) 
05/22/1916 Gordon Binkerd, composer 
05/22/1919 Paul Vanden Boeynants, premier Belgium (1966-68, 1978-79) 
05/22/1920 Thomas Gold, astronomer; proposed steady-state theory of universe 
05/22/1922 Judith Crist, NY, movie critic (TV Guide) 
05/22/1924 Charles Aznavour, Paris France, singer (Monsieur Carnavel) 
05/22/1924 Claude Andre Francois Ballif, composer 
05/22/1924 Helen Wedemeyer, Hilo Hawaii, actor (Hawaii Five-O) 
05/22/1925 Jean Tinguely, Swiss speed artist (movement objects) 
05/22/1927 Michael Constantine, actor (Room 222, Don't Drink the Water) 
05/22/1928 Roscoe Robinson, US gospel singer 
05/22/1928 T Boone Pickens, buys large companies (Shamrock) 
05/22/1929 Asher Ben-Yohanan, composer 
05/22/1930 Dieuwke Y W de Countf-Nauta, Dutch Sect of State (CDA) 
05/22/1933 John Browning, Denver Colorado, pianist (Leventritt Award-1956) 
05/22/1934 Peter Nero, NYC, pianist (A Sunday in NY) 
05/22/1938 Frank Converse, actor (It's About Time, Dr Cook's Garden, Movin' On)

05/22/1938 Richard Benjamin, director/actor (Goodbye Columbus, He & She) 
05/22/1938 Susan Strasberg, NYC, actress (In Praise of Older Women, Manitou) 
05/22/1940 Michael Sarrazin, actor (Seduction, They Shoot Horses Don't They) 
05/22/1941 Paul Winfield, LA, actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn) 
05/22/1941 Sebastian Forbes, composer 
05/22/1942 Barbara Parkins, Vancouver BC, actress (Betty-Peyton Place, Asylum) 
05/22/1942 Calvin Simon, US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-1 Nation Under a Groove) 
05/22/1942 Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer 
05/22/1942 Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member 
05/22/1943 Tommy John, pitcher (Yankee/Dodger) 
05/22/1948 Richard Baker, (Rep-R-Louisiana) 
05/22/1950 Bernie Taupin, musician, writes with Elton John 
05/22/1951 Iva Davies, rocker (Icehouse) 
05/22/1952 Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat 
05/22/1953 John Edward Stevens, NYC, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List) 
05/22/1954 Jerry Dammers, keyboardist (Specials-Special) 
05/22/1955 Sam Coppersmith, (Rep-D-Arizona) 
05/22/1956 Douglas Heyes Jr, LA Calif, actor (Captains & Kings, Aspen) 
05/22/1959 [Patrick] Morrissey, rocker (Depeche Mode-Somebody) 
05/22/1961 Dana Williams, Dayton Ohio, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle) 
05/22/1964 David Lidberg, jockey 
05/22/1970 Naomi Campbell, London England, model/actress (Cool as Ice) 
05/22/1972 Alison Eastwood, daughter of actor Clint/actress (Tightrope) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/22/ 337 Constantine the Great, emperor of Rome (306-37)/anti semite, dies 
05/22/1501 Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 6

05/22/1540 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 5

05/22/1667 Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68 
05/22/1688 Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist, dies at 70 
05/22/1781 Garret Wesley Mornington, composer, dies at 45 
05/22/1801 Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer, dies at 59 
05/22/1819 John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 8

05/22/1825 Domenico Corri, composer, dies at 80 
05/22/1859 Ferdinand II, King of Sicily, dies 
05/22/1868 Julius Plcker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies 
05/22/1878 Franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52 
05/22/1880 Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 

05/22/1885 Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Mis‚rables), dies 
05/22/1910 Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46 
05/22/1925 John [Denton P] French, British field marshal (Boer war/WW I), dies 
05/22/1928 William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 5

05/22/1939 Willem de M‚rode, poet (Precious Blood), dies at 51 
05/22/1945 Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies 
05/22/1948 Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 5

05/22/1949 Hans Pfitzner, composer, dies at 80 
05/22/1949 Klaus HT Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies 
05/22/1953 Vaclav Klicka, composer, dies at 70 
05/22/1957 Langston Hughes, poet laureate, dies 
05/22/1958 Magdalene Sz‚kely-Lulofs, author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58

05/22/1965 Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies 
05/22/1967 Henry C Rmke, psychiatrist (Light of Man), dies at 74 
05/22/1967 J Langston Hughes, US author (Tambourines to Glory), dies at 65 
05/22/1970 Joseph W Krutch, US writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76 
05/22/1972 Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies 
05/22/1977 Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73 
05/22/1977 Marius Monnikendam, composer, dies at 80 
05/22/1978 Bjarne Brustad, composer, dies at 83 
05/22/1984 John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery 
05/22/1987 Mario Zafred, composer, dies at 65 
05/22/1988 Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73

05/22/1990 Rocky Graziano, boxer, dies at 71, of heart failure 
05/22/1991 Lino Brocka, Philippines director, dies 
05/22/1993 Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 10

05/22/1994 Mitacq, [Michel Tacq], Belg comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/22/  12 -BC- A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in Chin

05/22/ 760 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 
05/22/1176 Murder attempt by 'Assassins' on Saladin near Aleppo 
05/22/1200 Peace of Goulet 
05/22/1370 Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium 
05/22/1594 Earl Mauritius & Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen 
05/22/1659 France, England & Netherlands sign 'Hedges Concerto' treaty 
05/22/1761 1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Phila 
05/22/1784 Ceyloneese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy 
05/22/1807 Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)

05/22/1819 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) 
05/22/1843 1000+ colonies depart Independence Missouri for Oregon 
05/22/1856 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #41 Daphne 
05/22/1856 Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner 
05/22/1858 Confederaci¢n Granadina (now Colombia) forms 
05/22/1863 War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops 
05/22/1864 Battle of N Anna River, VA (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertow

05/22/1868 Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in ca

05/22/1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500) 
05/22/1877 Baden-Baden wins Kentucky Derby 
05/22/1883 Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out 
05/22/1884 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters 
05/22/1885 Tecumseh wins Preakness 
05/22/1893 Montreal Athletic Assn beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game 
05/22/1900 Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative 
05/22/1900 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #455 Bruchsalia 
05/22/1905 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School 
05/22/1906 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece 
05/22/1906 Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane 
05/22/1909 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched 
05/22/1911 Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row 
05/22/1915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland) 
05/22/1924 In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks 
05/22/1926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China 
05/22/1926 Dutch Communist Party expels David W˜nkoop 
05/22/1927 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed 
05/22/1927 Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4 
05/22/1930 Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930) 
05/22/1930 Yankee 'Bronx Bombers' hit 14 HRs in a game 
05/22/1933 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated 
05/22/1939 Hitler & Mussolini sign 'Pact of Steel' 
05/22/1940 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis 
05/22/1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 
05/22/1941 British troops attack Baghdad 
05/22/1942 Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan 
05/22/1943 RAF scatters 1st copies of 'The Flying Hollander' 
05/22/1943 Stalin disbands Komintern 
05/22/1945 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa 
05/22/1946 Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3 
05/22/1947 'Truman Doctrine' goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece 
05/22/1947 1st US ballistic missile fired 
05/22/1950 Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey 
05/22/1950 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1580 Betulia 
05/22/1950 Poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize 
05/22/1950 Richard Strauss' '4 letzte People' premieres 
05/22/1953 Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4 
05/22/1954 Hasty Road wins Preakness 
05/22/1954 KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting 
05/22/1954 Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed 
05/22/1955 Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th 
05/22/1956 KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting 
05/22/1957 KBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting 
05/22/1957 South Africa govt approves race separation in universities 
05/22/1959 Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF 
05/22/1962 Neth telephone net becomes completely automated 
05/22/1962 Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m 
05/22/1962 Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game 
05/22/1963 Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured 
05/22/1963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade 
05/22/1964 LBJ presents 'Great Society' 
05/22/1965 Beatles' 'Ticket to Ride,' single goes #1 
05/22/1965 Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champ 
05/22/1967 Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel 
05/22/1967 Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium) 
05/22/1969 Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surfa

05/22/1970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus 
05/22/1970 Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0 
05/22/1972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified

05/22/1972 Ton Sijbrands becomes world draughts champion 
05/22/1972 US president Nixon begins visit Moscow 
05/22/1974 Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later 
05/22/1975 Ky Colonels beats Ind Pacers in 8th ABA championship, 4 games to 1 
05/22/1976 NASA launches space vehicle S-179 
05/22/1976 St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR 
05/22/1977 Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years) 
05/22/1977 Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11 
05/22/1979 Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Elliott Trudeau

05/22/1980 Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry 
05/22/1981 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth 
05/22/1983 Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR 
05/22/1985 Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader 
05/22/1985 US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR 
05/22/1987 30 killed in a Texas tornado 
05/22/1988 K roly Gr¢sz succeeds party leader J nos K d r in Hungary 
05/22/1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23 
05/22/1990 Final episode of 'Newhart' airs 
05/22/1990 Microsoft presents Windows 3.0 
05/22/1990 North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen 
05/22/1991 Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea 
05/22/1992 Calif Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in NJ 
05/22/1992 India launches its Agni rocket 
05/22/1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show 
05/22/1994 Toronto NBA franchise unveils name 'Raptors' and logo 
  
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