THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― MAY 22

May 22 is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of the year. 

NATIONAL VANILLA PUDDING DAY 


334 BC ― The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.

760 ― 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.

1370 ― Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels, Belgium.

1455 ― Opening battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses. Richard of York takes St Albans, capturing King Henry VI.

1570 ― The first atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' (Theatre of the World), is published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp with 70 maps.

1843 ― The first wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon.

1807 ― Former VP, Aaron Burr, is tried for treason in Richmond, VA (acquitted).

1840 ― The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.

1849 ― Abraham Lincoln receives a patent (only U.S. president to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions.

1872 ― The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500 military leaders).

1900 ― The Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative.

1902 ― U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signs a treaty with Mexico under which both countries agree to submit a long-standing dispute over interest payments to the Court of Arbitration at The Hague.

1915 ― Lassen Peak in CA erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain, other than Mount St. Helens, to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.

1919 ― Andrew E. Douglass establishes the relative dates of two archaeological sites using ancient wood samples, marking a major step forward in the dating of archaeological sites.

1927 ― 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed.

1936 ― Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.

1942 ― The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.

1953 ― U.S. President Eisenhower signs the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

1964 ― President Lyndon B. Johnson presents the "Great Society".

1973 ― President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up.

1985 ― Pete Rose scores his 2,108th run passing Hank Aaron as the NL career run scoring leader.

1998 ― The Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.

2011 ― An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing at least 158 people, the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.

BORN TODAY 

1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (daughter of King George II) (d. 1840)

1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)

1844 – Mary Cassatt, American painter and educator (d. 1926)

1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes) (d. 1930)

1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

1942 – Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber)

From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.