May 22 in history
Events on May 22
Notable events that happened on May 22 in past years.
- 2026
A gas explosion at a coal mine in Changzhi, Shanxi, leaves at least 82 people dead.
Wikipedia article: 2026 Liushenyu coal mine explosion - 2014
General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
Wikipedia article: Prayut Chan-o-cha - 2011
An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
Wikipedia article: Joplin tornado - 1998
A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
Wikipedia article: United States Secret Service - 1987
First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
Wikipedia article: 1987 Rugby World Cup - 1967
L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
Wikipedia article: L'Innovation department store fire - 1958
The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths are estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
Wikipedia article: 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom - 1941
During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
Wikipedia article: Anglo-Iraqi War - 1915
Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
Wikipedia article: Quintinshill rail disaster - 1872
Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
Wikipedia article: Reconstruction era - 1848
Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
Wikipedia article: History of Martinique - 1809
On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is defeated in a major battle for the first time in his career, and repelled by an enemy army for the first time in a decade.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Aspern–Essling - 1629
Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
Wikipedia article: Holy Roman Emperor - 1254
Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
- 192
Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
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