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, 2024 is the 143rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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
- 853 –A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt
- 1377 –Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
- 1762 –Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
- 1856 –Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).
- 1962 –Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
- 1969 –Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon’s surface.
- 1990 –Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
- 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.
- 2010 –Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway and crashes. 158 people are killed.
- 2011 –An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing up to 161 people. It is the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.
Who were born on May 22?
- 1912 –Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1930 –Kenny Ball, British musician
- 1938 –Richard Benjamin, American actor
- 1946 –George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
- 1959 –Steven Morrissey, English singer
- 1964 –Mark Christopher Lawrence, American Actor & Standup Comedian
- 1968 –Kevin Carolan, American actor and comedian
- 1974 –John Bale, American baseball player
- 1979 –Nadia Khan, Pakistani TV presenter
- 1985 –Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
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