It happened on this day, May 22
events:
1176 – The Assassin sect attempts to assassinate Saladin Al-Ayyubi near Aleppo.
1455 – Start of the first battle of the Wars of the Roses, which was the First Battle of St. Albans in the town of St. Albans, England, which ended in a major victory for the York family army , led by Richard York, leading the Lancastrian family army.
1840 – Transfer of British convicts to the colony of New South Wales in Australia stopped.
1872 – U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs an amnesty that restores civil rights to all but 500 southern Confederate sympathizers.
1927 – Two hundred thousand people are killed in an earthquake in Qinyin, China.
1939 – Hitler and Mussolini sign a military alliance agreement between Germany and Italy, known as the Iron Alliance.
(1945 – American President Harry Truman announces his policy to fight communism
1948 – The Security Council issues Resolution No. 49 regarding a ceasefire in the Arab-Jewish War.
1972 – Signing of the first agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States aimed at limiting the proliferation of strategic weapons. The agreement is called “SALT-1”. Ceylon adopts a new constitution and changes the country's name to Sri Lanka.
1987 – The Hashimpura massacre took place against Muslims in the city of Meerut, in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
1990 – The Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen united into one state as the Republic of Yemen, and it was agreed to form a presidential council to undertake the affairs of the presidency. The President of the Yemen Arab Republic, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the position of Vice President would be assumed by the President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Ali Salem Al-Baidh.
(This unit failed miserably and was not successful 4 years later in 1994)
1992 – Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina join the United Nations.
2004 – The Arab Summit is held in Tunisia and Libya withdraws as Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa delivers his opening speech.
2014 – Thailand witnesses a military coup by the commander of the Royal Armed Forces, amid protests that the country has seen since 2013.
2015 – 21 dead and more than 100 injured in a suicide attack during Friday prayers in a mosque in Qatif governorate, Saudi Arabia.
2016 – Minister of Transport, Shipping and Communications Binali Yildirim was elected chairman of the Turkish Justice and Development Party, succeeding Ahmet Davutoğlu, who resigned from his post, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan elected him entrusted the formation of a new government.
2017 – An explosion occurred at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, Great Britain, during a concert by American singer Ariana Grande, killing 23 people and injuring more than 59 people.
2020 – A Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane crashes near Karachi.
2021 – Nyiragongo volcano erupts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and lava approaches Goma airport. A constitutional crisis erupted in Samoa after Head of State Fa'aletoa Sualafi II prevented Parliament from convening following general elections in April.
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Births:
1813 – Richard Wagner, German musician.
1844 – Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, son of the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, Baha'u'llah.
1856 – Suleiman Al-Bustani, Lebanese writer.
1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer and creator of the character Sherlock Holmes.
1912 – Herbert Brown, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979.
1924 – Charles Aznavour, French actor and singer of Armenian origin.
1927 – George Olah, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994.
1932 – Maha Sabry, Egyptian actress.
1942 – Sheikha Suad Muhammad Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti poet, writer and writer.
1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Ireland political activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976.
1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer.
1949 – Ahmed Hamida, Egyptian writer.
1953 – Cha Bum Kwon, South Korean football player and coach.
1960 – Hideaki Anno, Japanese director and painter.
1965 – Fawzi Al-Majadi, Kuwaiti activist.
1967 – Brooke Smith, American actress.
1975 – Salvador Ballista, Spanish footballer.
1978 – Ginnifer Gooden, American actress.
1979 – Maggie Q, American actress.
1981 – Jurgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player.
1983 – Abdul Rahman Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer.
1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer.
1986 – Talal Al Balushi, Qatari footballer.
1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian footballer.
1991 – Suho, South Korean singer.
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Death:
337 – Constantine I, Roman emperor.
748 – Empress Genshu, Empress of Japan.
822 – Al-Hakam bin Hisham, one of the caliphs of the Umayyad dynasty in Andalusia.
910 – Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Daoud Al Dhaheri, one of the imams of jurisprudence of the third century AH.
1667 – Pope Alexander VII, pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1859 – King Ferdinand II, king of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1885 – Victor Hugo, French writer.
1933 – Abbas Qaftan, Iraqi Ottoman poet.
1982 – Cevdet Sunay, President of Turkey.
1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1974.
1986 – Omar Al-Tilmisani, third guide of the Muslim Brotherhood.
1997 – Alfred Hershey, American microbiologist and geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1969.
2002 – Abdulaziz Al-Namash, Kuwaiti actor.
2013 – Shaaban Hussein, Egyptian actor.
2020 – Adam Henein, Egyptian sculptor and painter.
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Holidays and Occasions:
◀️ National holiday in Yemen.
◀️ International Biodiversity Day.
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