1923 – Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law restricting immigration
1925 – Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
1927 – Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie
1937 – Dutch Rail NV at law forms
1972 – The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook and Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank
1981 – Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
1983 – NASA launches Exosat
1989 – American radio broadcasters go silent for 30 seconds at 7:42 am to honor the radio industry
2002 – Indianapolis 500: Defending champion Hélio Castroneves of Brazil becomes fifth driver in Indy 500 history to win back-to-back races for his second of 4 race victories
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 25th May 2022
1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of the Ukrainian People’s Republic
1947 – Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co’s Mine #5 killing 111 in Illinois
1964 – Frank Gilroy’s dramatic play “The Subject Was Roses”, starring Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen, opens at Royale Theatre, NYC; runs for 832 performances; wins Pulitzer Prize, and 2 Tony Awards
1968 – BPAA US Women’s Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill
1968 – BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich
1968 – Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7
1983 – “Return of the Jedi” (Star Wars Episode VI), produced by George Lucas first released
1989 – Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots
2009 – Thailand’s economy shrank more than expected in the first quarter of 2009, contracting the most in a decade and plunging the nation into recession
2018 – Barbados elects its first female Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who leads the Barbados Labour Party to victory
Historical Events for 24th May 2022
1370 – Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV
1487 – Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI in Dublin
1899 – 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1922 – Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6°C)
1936 – Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yanks beat A’s 25-2
1968 – French President Charles De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse
1979 – Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar
1983 – Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as Chancellor of Austria
1989 – 33rd European Cup: Milan beats Steaua Bucuresti 4-0 at Barcelona
1992 – Indianapolis 500: Al Unser Jr. holds off Scott Goodyear to win by 0.043 seconds; closest finish in Indy history; first second-generation driver to win the race
Historical Events for 23rd May 2022
1785 – Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1901 – Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
1901 – 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21
1921 – Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake’s musical “Shuffle Along” premieres on Broadway at Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre, New York City
1948 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs as the New York Yankees edge the Indians, 6-5 at Cleveland Stadium
1967 – Government bans submarines near South Africa
1980 – 33rd Cannes Film Festival: “All That Jazz” directed by Bob Fosse and “Kagemusha” directed by Akira Kurosawa jointly awarded the Palme d’Or
2015 – 60th Eurovision Song Contest: Mans Zelmerlow for Sweden wins singing “Heroes” in Vienna
2017 – US President Donald Trump meets Pope Francis at the Vatican
2019 – Six migrant children have now died in US custody in eight months prompting calls for an investigation
Historical Events for 22nd May 2022
1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg, reaffirming the status quo that existed before the Seven Years’ War
1902 – 36th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Mastermam wins in 2:22.6
1931 – Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida
1961 – “Touchables In Brooklyn” by Dickie Goodman hits #42
1964 – LBJ presents “Great Society”
1988 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Sherri Turner birdies final 2 holes to win her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Amy Alcott
1996 – Emmy 23rd Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 16th time
2004 – English FA Cup Final, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (71,350): Manchester United beats Millwall, 3-0; Ruud van Nistelrooy scores 2 and Cristiano Ronaldo 1 in Red Devils’ 11th title win
2015 – Netflix announce that Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen will not appear on “Full House” revival
2018 – New York Stock Exchange announces Stacey Cunningham will be its first woman head in its 226-year history
Historical Events for 21st May 2022
878 – Syracuse is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily
1907 – 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
1925 – George Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, becomes British High Commissioner in Egypt
1933 – Mount Davidson Cross, San Francisco, lit by FDR via telegraph
1959 – “Gypsy” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
1960 – Leontyne Price becomes the first African American to sing the lead at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in “Aida”
1971 – Marvin Gaye’ eleventh album “What’s Going On” is released; considered the best album off all-time by critic surveys in Rolling Stone (2020); The Guardian (1997); and New Music Express (1985)
1993 – Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia
2004 – Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu’s record from the previous year.
2018 – Former US president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama sign deal with Netflix to produce films and series
Historical Events for 20th May 2022
1864 – Spotsylvania campaign in US Civil War ends after 10,920 killed or injured
1868 – Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
1891 – 1st public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope to members of the National Federation of Women’s Club
1902 – United States withdraws its troops from Cuba as the first Cuban president, Tomas Estrada Palma takes power
1926 – Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots and planes
1961 – Henzes opera “Elegy for Young Lovers,” premieres in Schwetzingen
1985 – Indians-Brewers game at Cleve Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out
1991 – Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
1994 – Sony Theaters and Cineplex (NYC) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00
2012 – 6.0 magnitude earthquake kills 6 and injures dozens in northern Italy
Historical Events for 19th May 2022
715 – St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828/Tariff of Abominations into law to protect industry in the North
1891 – Rice Institute, which became Rice University in Houston, Texas, is chartered
1896 – 1st auto (Karl Benz) arrives in Netherlands
1906 – Federated Boys’ Club (Boys’ Club of America) organizes
1960 – Alan Freed and eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola
1988 – Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia’s Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
1992 – Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the face in an altercation over an affair with her husband, in Massapequa, New York
1994 – Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
2021 – BBC investigation finds their 1995 Princess Dianna interview was secured through ‘deceitful behavior’ by journalist Martin Bashir
Historical Events for 18th May 2022
1811 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay lead by Jose Artigas
1812 – John Bellingham, a Liverpool merchant who assassinated British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval on May 11, is hung for the crime at the Old Bailey in London
1927 – Grauman’s Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood, California
1949 – Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates
1972 – American basketball player John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
1974 – Novelty song “The Streak” by Ray Stevens hits #1
1990 – Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak
1990 – East and West Germany sign a monetary union treaty
1991 – Republic of Somaliland declares independence from Somalia
2004 – Arizona Diamondbacks’ Randy Johnson becomes 16th pitcher to throw a perfect game (2-0 vs Atlanta)
Historical Events for 17th May 2022
1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian
1939 – 1st televised baseball game is broadcast on NBC, with Princeton defeating Columbia 2-1
1944 – -18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
1959 – Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
1969 – Balt, Cleve and Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL
1975 – 10CC releases “I’m Not in Love”
1980 – Paul and Linda McCartney appear on “Saturday Night Live”
1990 – The Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong designed by I. M. Pei opens as the first supertall skyscraper outside the US
1996 – Venezuelan Alicia Machado, aged 18, crowned 45th Miss Universe
2018 – Gina Haspel confirmed as the first female director of the CIA by the US Senate