Day of the year
May 22
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May 22 Zodiac Sign
Gemini (May 21 – June 20)
Element: Air
curiousadaptablewittyexpressivesociable
Birthstone
Emerald
Birth Flower
Lily of the Valley
Season
Spring
Numerology 9
A number of compassion, completion, and humanitarian spirit.
May 22: This Day in History
- 1455— The Wars of the Roses began with the First Battle of St Albans in England.
- 1807— Aaron Burr was acquitted of treason charges related to his alleged plot to create a new country in the American West.
- 1960— The largest earthquake ever recorded — magnitude 9.5 — struck southern Chile, killing over 5,000 people.
- 1972— President Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow for the first visit to the Soviet Union by an American president.
- 1990— North and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen.
Famous Birthdays on May 22
- Richard Wagner (1813) — German opera composer
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859) — creator of Sherlock Holmes
- Naomi Campbell (1970) — supermodel
- Novak Djokovic (1987) — tennis world number one
- Harvey Milk (1930) — pioneering LGBTQ+ politician
- George Best (1946) — Northern Irish footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time
What Happens on May 22?
International Day for Biological Diversity
Did You Know? May 22 Fun Facts
- The 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile was so powerful it generated tsunamis that reached Hawaii and Japan.
- Arthur Conan Doyle tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 but public outcry forced him to resurrect the character.
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