Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sat May 22 2021 12:05 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
05/22/1671 Abraham Patras, governor-general of East-Indies (1735-37)
05/22/1722 Johannes Schmidlin, composer
05/22/1759 Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer
05/22/1780 Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer
05/22/1783 Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer
05/22/1804 John William (Turk) Livingston, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
05/22/1813 Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman)
05/22/1820 Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer
05/22/1821 Alfred Sully, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
05/22/1828 Albrecht Gr�fe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology
05/22/1844 Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing)
05/22/1850 Johann Schrammel, composer
05/22/1852 Emile Sauret, composer
05/22/1859 Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice
05/22/1865 Enrique Morera, composer
05/22/1874 Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54)
05/22/1874 Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer
05/22/1879 Eastwood Lane, composer
05/22/1879 Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer
05/22/1884 Alceo Toni, composer
05/22/1885 Julio Fonseca, composer
05/22/1891 Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college pres (Univ of Calif)
05/22/1892 Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk Up to High C)
05/22/1895 Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, spiritual philosopher (Songs of Life)
05/22/1898 Ren� de Fox, actor/composer
05/22/1902 Al Simmons, Milwaukee, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334
05/22/1904 Anne de Vries, writer (Bartje)
05/22/1906 Harry Ritz, US comic (Ritz Brothers-Silent Movie)
05/22/1907 Herg�, [Georges R�mi], Belgian cartoonist (Kuifje)
05/22/1907 Laurence Olivier, actor (Rebecca, Hamlet, Jazz Singer)
05/22/1911 Anatol Rapoport, Russ/US mathem/biologist (olympic theory)
05/22/1912 Henry Cuckoo, Second-Member of Dutch parliament (Boer Party)
05/22/1914 Vance Packard, US sociologist (Hidden Persueders)
05/22/1916 Gordon Binkerd, composer
05/22/1919 Paul Vanden Boeynants, premier Belgium (1966-68, 1978-79)
05/22/1920 Thomas Gold, astronomer; proposed steady-state theory of universe
05/22/1922 Judith Crist, NY, movie critic (TV Guide)
05/22/1924 Charles Aznavour, Paris France, singer (Monsieur Carnavel)
05/22/1924 Claude Andre Francois Ballif, composer
05/22/1924 Helen Wedemeyer, Hilo Hawaii, actor (Hawaii Five-O)
05/22/1925 Jean Tinguely, Swiss speed artist (movement objects)
05/22/1927 Michael Constantine, actor (Room 222, Don't Drink the Water)
05/22/1928 Roscoe Robinson, US gospel singer
05/22/1928 T Boone Pickens, buys large companies (Shamrock)
05/22/1929 Asher Ben-Yohanan, composer
05/22/1930 Dieuwke Y W de Countf-Nauta, Dutch Sect of State (CDA)
05/22/1933 John Browning, Denver Colorado, pianist (Leventritt Award-1956)
05/22/1934 Peter Nero, NYC, pianist (A Sunday in NY)
05/22/1938 Frank Converse, actor (It's About Time, Dr Cook's Garden, Movin' On)
05/22/1938 Richard Benjamin, director/actor (Goodbye Columbus, He & She)
05/22/1938 Susan Strasberg, NYC, actress (In Praise of Older Women, Manitou)
05/22/1940 Michael Sarrazin, actor (Seduction, They Shoot Horses Don't They)
05/22/1941 Paul Winfield, LA, actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn)
05/22/1941 Sebastian Forbes, composer
05/22/1942 Barbara Parkins, Vancouver BC, actress (Betty-Peyton Place, Asylum)
05/22/1942 Calvin Simon, US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-1 Nation Under a Groove)
05/22/1942 Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer
05/22/1942 Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member
05/22/1943 Tommy John, pitcher (Yankee/Dodger)
05/22/1948 Richard Baker, (Rep-R-Louisiana)
05/22/1950 Bernie Taupin, musician, writes with Elton John
05/22/1951 Iva Davies, rocker (Icehouse)
05/22/1952 Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat
05/22/1953 John Edward Stevens, NYC, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
05/22/1954 Jerry Dammers, keyboardist (Specials-Special)
05/22/1955 Sam Coppersmith, (Rep-D-Arizona)
05/22/1956 Douglas Heyes Jr, LA Calif, actor (Captains & Kings, Aspen)
05/22/1959 [Patrick] Morrissey, rocker (Depeche Mode-Somebody)
05/22/1961 Dana Williams, Dayton Ohio, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
05/22/1964 David Lidberg, jockey
05/22/1970 Naomi Campbell, London England, model/actress (Cool as Ice)
05/22/1972 Alison Eastwood, daughter of actor Clint/actress (Tightrope)
Deaths:
05/22/ 337 Constantine the Great, emperor of Rome (306-37)/anti semite, dies
05/22/1501 Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 6
05/22/1540 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 5
05/22/1667 Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68
05/22/1688 Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist, dies at 70
05/22/1781 Garret Wesley Mornington, composer, dies at 45
05/22/1801 Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer, dies at 59
05/22/1819 John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 8
05/22/1825 Domenico Corri, composer, dies at 80
05/22/1859 Ferdinand II, King of Sicily, dies
05/22/1868 Julius Pl�cker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies
05/22/1878 Franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52
05/22/1880 Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at
05/22/1885 Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Mis�rables), dies
05/22/1910 Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46
05/22/1925 John [Denton P] French, British field marshal (Boer war/WW I), dies
05/22/1928 William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 5
05/22/1939 Willem de M�rode, poet (Precious Blood), dies at 51
05/22/1945 Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies
05/22/1948 Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 5
05/22/1949 Hans Pfitzner, composer, dies at 80
05/22/1949 Klaus HT Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies
05/22/1953 Vaclav Klicka, composer, dies at 70
05/22/1957 Langston Hughes, poet laureate, dies
05/22/1958 Magdalene Sz�kely-Lulofs, author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58
05/22/1965 Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies
05/22/1967 Henry C R�mke, psychiatrist (Light of Man), dies at 74
05/22/1967 J Langston Hughes, US author (Tambourines to Glory), dies at 65
05/22/1970 Joseph W Krutch, US writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76
05/22/1972 Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies
05/22/1977 Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73
05/22/1977 Marius Monnikendam, composer, dies at 80
05/22/1978 Bjarne Brustad, composer, dies at 83
05/22/1984 John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery
05/22/1987 Mario Zafred, composer, dies at 65
05/22/1988 Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73
05/22/1990 Rocky Graziano, boxer, dies at 71, of heart failure
05/22/1991 Lino Brocka, Philippines director, dies
05/22/1993 Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 10
05/22/1994 Mitacq, [Michel Tacq], Belg comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies
Significant Events:
05/22/ 12 -BC- A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in Chin
05/22/ 760 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
05/22/1176 Murder attempt by 'Assassins' on Saladin near Aleppo
05/22/1200 Peace of Goulet
05/22/1370 Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium
05/22/1594 Earl Mauritius & Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen
05/22/1659 France, England & Netherlands sign 'Hedges Concerto' treaty
05/22/1761 1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Phila
05/22/1784 Ceyloneese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy
05/22/1807 Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)
05/22/1819 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga)
05/22/1843 1000+ colonies depart Independence Missouri for Oregon
05/22/1856 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #41 Daphne
05/22/1856 Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
05/22/1858 Confederaci�n Granadina (now Colombia) forms
05/22/1863 War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
05/22/1864 Battle of N Anna River, VA (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertow
05/22/1868 Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in ca
05/22/1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
05/22/1877 Baden-Baden wins Kentucky Derby
05/22/1883 Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out
05/22/1884 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
05/22/1885 Tecumseh wins Preakness
05/22/1893 Montreal Athletic Assn beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game
05/22/1900 Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative
05/22/1900 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #455 Bruchsalia
05/22/1905 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
05/22/1906 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
05/22/1906 Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane
05/22/1909 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched
05/22/1911 Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row
05/22/1915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
05/22/1924 In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
05/22/1926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China
05/22/1926 Dutch Communist Party expels David W�nkoop
05/22/1927 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed
05/22/1927 Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
05/22/1930 Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
05/22/1930 Yankee 'Bronx Bombers' hit 14 HRs in a game
05/22/1933 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated
05/22/1939 Hitler & Mussolini sign 'Pact of Steel'
05/22/1940 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis
05/22/1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris
05/22/1941 British troops attack Baghdad
05/22/1942 Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan
05/22/1943 RAF scatters 1st copies of 'The Flying Hollander'
05/22/1943 Stalin disbands Komintern
05/22/1945 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
05/22/1946 Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3
05/22/1947 'Truman Doctrine' goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece
05/22/1947 1st US ballistic missile fired
05/22/1950 Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
05/22/1950 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1580 Betulia
05/22/1950 Poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
05/22/1950 Richard Strauss' '4 letzte People' premieres
05/22/1953 Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4
05/22/1954 Hasty Road wins Preakness
05/22/1954 KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
05/22/1954 Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
05/22/1955 Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th
05/22/1956 KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
05/22/1957 KBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
05/22/1957 South Africa govt approves race separation in universities
05/22/1959 Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF
05/22/1962 Neth telephone net becomes completely automated
05/22/1962 Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m
05/22/1962 Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game
05/22/1963 Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured
05/22/1963 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
05/22/1964 LBJ presents 'Great Society'
05/22/1965 Beatles' 'Ticket to Ride,' single goes #1
05/22/1965 Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champ
05/22/1967 Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel
05/22/1967 Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
05/22/1969 Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surfa
05/22/1970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
05/22/1970 Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
05/22/1972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
05/22/1972 Ton Sijbrands becomes world draughts champion
05/22/1972 US president Nixon begins visit Moscow
05/22/1974 Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later
05/22/1975 Ky Colonels beats Ind Pacers in 8th ABA championship, 4 games to 1
05/22/1976 NASA launches space vehicle S-179
05/22/1976 St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR
05/22/1977 Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years)
05/22/1977 Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11
05/22/1979 Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Elliott Trudeau
05/22/1980 Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry
05/22/1981 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
05/22/1983 Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR
05/22/1985 Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader
05/22/1985 US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR
05/22/1987 30 killed in a Texas tornado
05/22/1988 K�roly Gr�sz succeeds party leader J�nos K�d�r in Hungary
05/22/1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23
05/22/1990 Final episode of 'Newhart' airs
05/22/1990 Microsoft presents Windows 3.0
05/22/1990 North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen
05/22/1991 Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea
05/22/1992 Calif Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in NJ
05/22/1992 India launches its Agni rocket
05/22/1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show
05/22/1994 Toronto NBA franchise unveils name 'Raptors' and logo
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