Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: 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 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 22
- 1807 –Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
- 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.
- 1848 –Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
- 1942 –Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
- 1987 –Hashimpura massacre in Meerut city of India.
- 1992 –After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
- 1997 –Kelly Flinn, US Air Force’s first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
- 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.
Who were born on May 22?
- 1770 –Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
- 1823 –Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
- 1908 –Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (d. 1970)
- 1925 –James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
- 1943 –Tommy John, American baseball player
- 1955 –Iva Davies, Australian rock star (Icehouse)
- 1966 –Jose Mesa, Dominican baseball player
- 1967 –John Vanderslice, American musician
- 1970 –Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver
- 1985 –Mauro Boselli, Argentine Footballer
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