Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: May 22
May 22, 2025 is the 142nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 22
- 853 –A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt
- 1856 –Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).
- 1863 –American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
- 1942 –Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
- 1947 –Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
- 1980 –Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
- 1992 –Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
- 2003 –In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
- 2008 –The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.
- 2010 –Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway and crashes. 158 people are killed.
Who were born on May 22?
- 1907 –Sir Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor (d. 1989)
- 1925 –Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
- 1934 –Arne Harris, American television sports director (d. 2001)
- 1935 –Ron Piché, Canadian baseball player
- 1957 –Gary Sweet, Australian actor
- 1964 –Mark Christopher Lawrence, American Actor & Standup Comedian
- 1977 –Tom Chambers, British actor
- 1977 –Vinnie Potestivo, American TV producer
- 1979 –Maggie Q, American actress
- 1986 –Matt Jarvis, English footballer
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