22 May - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on May 22, the day number in a year is 142 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 143. May 22 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
May 22 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1545 | The death of Sher Shah Shuri, the founder of Sur dynasty, who built the country's longest road from Peshawar to Calcutta. |
| 1570 | The first atlas, titled Theatrum Arbis Terram, was published, with a total of 70 maps. |
| 1629 | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Danish King Christian IV signed the Treaty of Lübeck to end Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War. |
| 1712 | Emperor Karel VI was crowned King of Hungary. |
| 1735 | George Headley published the first interpretation of "Trade Wind". |
| 1746 | Russia and Austria signed treaty of cooperation. |
| 1762 | Sweden and Prussia signed the peace treaty. |
| 1772 | Birth of renowned social reformer Rajaram Mohan Roy. He started the Brahmo Samaj movement and raised his voice against evils like child marriage and sati system. |
| 1816 | A riot broke out in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, over high unemployment and rising grain costs, spreading to Ely the next day. |
| 1826 | HMS Beagle departed on her first voyage from Plymouth for ahydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions ofSouth America. |
| 1841 | Revolt in Guria in 1841: The Georgia province of Guria started a revolt against the Russian Empire. |
| 1843 | The first wagon train with 700–1000 migrants was sent to Freedom Oregon, Missouri. |
| 1849 | Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for an invention to liftboats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President toever hold a patent. |
| 1855 | The province of Victoria was administratively separated from NewSouth Wales. |
| 1856 | US Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas. |
| 1863 | American Civil War-Union forces began to lay siege to theConfederate-controlled town of Port Hudson, Louisiana. |
| 1892 | Doctor Washington Scheffield invented the tube for toothpaste. |
| 1897 | The first Blackwall Tunnel under theRiver Thames was opened to improve commerce and trade in the East End ofLondon. |
| 1906 | The Wright brothers received a patent from the US for their flying machine. |
| 1915 | Five trains were involved in a crash near Gretna Green,Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246 others. |
| 1915 | Lassen Peak, in the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California, violently erupted, the only volcanic eruption in the contiguous U.S. in the 20th century until Mount St. Helens in 1980. |
| 1915 | Five trains were involved in the United Kingdom's deadliesttrain crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246 others. |
| 1917 | The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 began on 21st May resulted into the damage of $5.5 million. Around 300 acres including 2,000 homes, business and churches were destroyed and about 1,000 people were displaced. There was one fatality of a woman due to heart attack. |
| 1933 | World Trade Day was celebrated for the first time. |
| 1934 | Oskaloosa, lowa, became the first municipality in the United States to gather data of fingerprints all of its citizens including children. |
| 1936 | Inaugurated India's first stadium Brabourne Stadium in Bombay. |
| 1939 | The signing of the Treaty of Steel between Germany and Italy during World War II. |
| 1943 | British commandos raided the Yugoslavian island of Maggette in an operation Farrier. |
| 1945 | The United States Army formed a plan to evacuate Germanscientists and engineers to help in the development of rockettechnology. |
| 1958 | Ethnic rioting broke out in Ceylon, targeted mostly at theminority Sri Lankan Tamils, resulting in up to 300 deaths over the nextfive days. |
| 1960 | The Great Chilean Earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale occurred on May 22, 1960, affecting Southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia and the Aleutian Islands. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the world history. |
| 1960 | A magnitude 9.5 earthquake devastated Valdivia, Chile, andgenerated destructive tsunamis that reached Hawaii the following day. |
| 1960 | A 9.5 magnitude earthquake struck southern Chile on this day. This was the highest intensity earthquake ever recorded. |
| 1963 | India's first glider Rohini took off. |
| 1972 | Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka, adopteda new constitution, and officially became a republic. |
| 1980 | Arcade game Pac-Man was released on May 22, 1980 by Namaco. It is among the most famous arcade game and one of the highest grossing video games of all time. |
| 1980 | Pac-Man, an arcade game that became an icon of 1980s popular culture, made its debut in Japan. |
| 1987 | Hashimpura massacre took place on May 22, 1987 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India during Hindu-Muslim riots. In this massacre 42 Muslim youth from the Hashimpura mohalla were allegedly rounded up by 19 PAC personal who took them in truck near Murad Nagar, Ghaziabad where they were shot and their bodies were dumped in the water canals; however five of them survived even after being shot. In absence of sufficient evidences all 16 PAC personal were acquitted by Tis Hazari Court in 2015, while three of them were already dead. |
| 1987 | The Hashimpura massacre took place in Meerut, India. |
| 1990 | Operating system Windows 3.0 was released on May 22, 1990 by Microsoft Window, succeeding Windows 2.1x. It was the only version of Windows that could be run in three different memory modes real, standard and 386 enhanced mode. |
| 1990 | The Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic ofYemen merged to become the Republic of Yemen. |
| 1992 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia joined the United Nations. |
| 2002 | Washington, D.C., police announced that the skeletal remains ofmissing Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy were found in RockCreek Park. |
| 2003 | Swedish professional golfer Annika Sorenstam became the first woman to play in a PGA Tour event in Fort Worth, Texas on May 22, 2003 since 1945 Los Angeles Open which was qualified by Babe Zaharias. |
| 2003 | Swedish golfer Annika Sörenstam became the first woman to playin a PGA Tour event in 58 years. |
| 2009 | The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 signed into law by the US President Barack Obama on May 22, 2009 after Unites States Congress passed the amended bill on 20th May. The bill is effective from February 22, 2010. |
| 2010 | Air India Express Flight 812 crashed on May 22, 2010 after falling over a cliff in Mangalore, India, killing 158 people on board. It was the third deadliest aviation disaster in India and the deadliest accident of a 737aircraft. |
| 2010 | Air India Express Boeing 737 crashed while landing in Mangalore. In which 158 people died. |
| 2012 | Tokyo Skytree, the tallest structure in Japan with the height of 634.0 metres, opened on May 22, 2012 to the public. It is the second tallest structure in the world after Dubai's Burj Khalifa. |
| 2012 | Tokyo Skytree Tower opened in Japan. After Dubai's Burj Khalifa and China's Canton Tower, Japan built its tallest building, the Tokyo Sky Tree. |
Famous Birthdays of May 22:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1949 | Cheryl Campbell / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 1814 | Amalia Lindegren / Painter / Sweden |
| 1954 | Shuji Nakamura / Engineer / United States of America |
| 1811 | Giulia Grisi / Singer / Italy |
| 1901 | Maurice J. Tobin / Politician / United States of America |
| 1940 | Michael Sarrazin / Actor / Canada |
| 1914 | Sun Ra / Poet / United States of America |
| 1833 | Félix Bracquemond / Painter / France |
| 1962 | Brian Pillman / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1933 | Fred Anderson / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1948 | Nedumudi Venu / Actor / India |
| 1935 | Billy Rayner / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1953 | Cha Bum-kun / Footballer / South Korea |
| 1828 | Albrecht von Graefe / Academic / Germany |
| 1982 | Hong Yong-jo / Footballer / North Korea |
| 1962 | Andrew Magee / Golfer / United States of America |
| 1946 | Howard Kendall / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 1879 | Warwick Armstrong / Cricketer / Australia |
| 1959 | Olin Browne / Golfer / United States of America |
| 1936 | George H. Heilmeier / Engineer / United States of America |
| 1984 | Karoline Herfurth / Actress / Germany |
| 1980 | Tommy Smith / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 1917 | Jean-Louis Curtis / Author / France |
| 1841 | Catulle Mendès / Poet / France |
| 1927 | George Andrew Olah / Academic / United States of America |
| 1852 | Émile Sauret / Violinist / France |
| 1733 | Hubert Robert / Painter / France |
| 1987 | Arturo Vidal / Footballer / Chile |
| 1921 | George S. Hammond / Scientist / United States of America |
| 1982 | Apolo Ohno / Skater / United States of America |
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