Historical Events In May - 22
Friday, 29 March 2024
1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris on May - 22.
1940 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with Nazis on May - 22.
1940 Bernard Shaw, news correspondant (CBS, CNN) on May - 22.
1941 British troops attack Baghdad on this day in history.
1941 On May - 22 second Lieutenant Charles Hazlitt UPHAM 20 th NZ Battalion, won the first of two Victoria Crosses on Crete
1941 On this day in history paul Winfield, LA, actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack)
1942 México declares war on Nazi-Germany & Japan on May - 22.
1942 Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan on May - 22.
1943 On this day in history rAF scatters first copies of "The Flying Hollander"
1943 Stalin disbands Komintern on this day in history.
1943 The first jet fighter is tested on May - 22.
1943 1st jet fighter is tested on this day in history.
1944 Two new RCN torpedo boat flotillas start operating off coast of France on May - 22.
1945 On May - 22 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
1945 Barin Road, Solomons, cleared on this day in history.
1945 NSB-Führer Rost van Tonningen attempts & fails at suicide on May - 22.
1945 On this day in history carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies
1946 Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3 on May - 22.
1947 "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece on May - 22.
1947 On this day in history the first US ballistic missile fired
1948 Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57 on May - 22.
1949 On May - 22 hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80
1950 On May - 22 celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
1950 Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize on this day in history.
1953 On this day in history president Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill
1953 Vaclav Klicka, composer, dies at 70 on May - 22.
1954 On this day in history robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
1954 80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4 on May - 22.
1955 On this day in history oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th
1956 "Bob Hope Show" last airs on NBC-TV on May - 22.
1956 "Bob Hope Show," last airs on NBC-TV on this day in history.
1957 South Africa Government approves race separation in universities on May - 22.
1957 On this day in history kBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 On this day in history langston Hughes, poet laureate, dies
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