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May 22, 1724 – French cartographer and explorer March-Joseph
Marion du Fresne was born in St Malo, Brittany, France.
He made important discoveries in the south Indian Ocean, in Tasmania and
in New Zealand. Du Fresne was killed by Maori in 1772.
May 22, 1762 – Trevi Fountain in Rome was officially
completed and inaugurated by Pope Clemens XIII.
May 22, 1781 - Partiots began a seige of Ninety Six, South
Carolina. They retreated on June 18. This was the longest battle of American
Revolutionary War.
May 22, 1783 – Anderson Crenshaw, who lived near Manningham
in Butler County from 1821 to his death in 1847 and was the first attorney to
settle in Butler County, was born in Newbury District, S.C. He was the first
graduate of what is now the University of South Carolina. He moved to Cahawba
in 1819. There, he was appointed a judge of the circuit court from 1821–1838,
of the state supreme court from 1832, and as chancellor of the southern
division of the state's courts. After his death in 1847, Crenshaw County was
named in his honor.
May 22, 1807 – A grand jury indicted former Vice President
of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
May 22, 1814 – British explorer Erasmus Ommanney was born in
London, England He went on to become a Royal Navy officer and an Arctic
explorer of the Victorian era.
May 22, 1819 – The SS Savannah left port at
Savannah, Georgia on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the
Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England, on June 20.
May 22, 1826 – The HMS Beagle departed on its
first voyage.
May 22, 1848 – Slavery was abolished in Martinique.
May 22, 1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was
issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river,
making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
May 22, 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina
savagely beat Massachusetts 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. In his speech, Sumner made
comments about South Carolina Senator Andrew D. Butler, Brooks' cousin, in
Butler's absence. The comments were related to the controversial Kansas-Nebraska
Act of 1854, which allowed the two new territories to decide the slave issue by
vote.
May 22, 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of
fictional character “Sherlock Holmes,” was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
May 22, 1863 – During the Civil War, during the Siege of
Port Hudson, Union forces began to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port
Hudson, Louisiana.
May 22, 1863 - The War Department established the Bureau of
Colored Troops to recruit and assemble black regiments.
May 22, 1864 – During the Civil War, after 10 weeks, the
Union Army's Red River Campaign ended with the Union unable to achieve any of
its objectives.
May 22, 1864 – Early Conecuh County settler Chesley Crosby
died at his home between Belleville and Sparta.
May 22, 1865 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis was
imprisoned at Fortress Monroe in Virginia.
May 22, 1868 - Near Marshfield, Indiana, the "Great
Train Robbery" took place. The robbery was worth $96,000 in cash, gold and
bonds to the seven members of the Reno gang.
May 22, 1872 – During Reconstruction, U.S. President Ulysses
S. Grant signed the Amnesty Act into law restoring full civil and political
rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
May 22, 1900 - The Associated Press was incorporated as a
non-profit news cooperative in New York.
May 22, 1901 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt announced
that he would support the International Court at the Hague in its settlement of
the U.S.'s debt dispute with Mexico.
May 22, 1902 – National Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Al
Simmons was born in Milwaukee, Wisc. He went on to play for the Philadelphia
Athletics, the Chicago White Sox, the Detroit Tigers, the Washington Senators,
the Boston Braves, the Cincinnati Reds and the Bost Red Sox. He was inducted into
the Hall of Fame in 1953.
May 22, 1905 – The James Shelby Show gave two exhibitions in
Monroeville, Ala. at 1:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Admission was 25 cents for adults and
15 cents for children.
May 22, 1906 – The Wright brothers were granted U.S. patent
number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine."
May 22, 1927 – Writer Peter Matthiessen was born in New York
City.
May 22, 1942 – During World War II, Ted Williams of the
Boston Red Sox enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a flight
instructor.
May 22, 1942 - Theodore John Kaczynski, aka “The Unabomber,”
was born in Chicago.
May 22, 1954 – National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Chief
Bender passed away at the age of 70 in Philadelphia, Pa. He played for the
Philadelphia Athletics, the Baltimore Terrapins, the Philadelphia Phillies and
the Chicago White Sox. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1953.
May 22, 1960 - The Great Chilean Earthquake was the most
powerful quake ever recorded, with a magnitude of 9.5.
May 22, 1961 - The Space Needle (built for the 1962 World's
Fair) opened its revolving restaurant, now called SkyCity, on this day.
May 22, 1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion
sank with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
May 22, 1968 - Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit
three home runs, a single and a double.
May 22, 1972 – Army Staff Sgt. Charles Donnette Gipson of
Brewton, Ala. was killed in action in Vietnam.
May 22, 1973 – The Auburn University Chapel was added to the
National Register of Historic Places as the Auburn Players Theater. Built in
1851, it’s the second-oldest building and oldest building in its original
location on the campus of Auburn University. During the Civil War, the building
briefly served as a Confederate hospital for wounded soldiers, and legend says
that the building is haunted by the ghost of Sydney Grimlett, an Englishman and
Confederate soldier who died in the chapel during the time it served as a
hospital.
May 22, 1975 - Joe Namath refused a $4 million offer to play
for Chicago in the World Football League.
May 22, 1975 – National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty
Grove passed away at the age of 75 in Norwalk, Ohio. He played for the
Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox. He was inducted into the Hall of
Fame in 1947.
May 22, 1985 - Pete Rose passed Hank Aaron as National
League run scoring leader with 2,108.
May 22, 1986 – The Commercial Hotel (later known as the Hart
Hotel and Flomaton Hotel) in Flomaton, Ala. was added to the National Register
of Historic Places.
May 22, 1991 - The NFL owners agreed to add two new teams in
1994.
May 22, 2002 - Mark Prior became only the 14th Chicago Cubs
player since 1920 to win his major league debut. The Cubs beat the Pirates,
7-4.
May 22, 2002 – In Washington, D.C., the remains of the
missing Chandra Levy were found in Rock Creek Park.
May 22, 2002 – A jury in Birmingham, Ala. convicted former
Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of murder for his part in the bombing of
Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Cherry was the last living
suspect to be prosecuted for the Sept. 15, 1963, blast that killed 11-year-old
Denise McNair, and 14-year-olds Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae
Collins.
May 22, 2002 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit
his 583rd career home run. He tied Mark McGwire for fifth on the all-time list.
May 22, 2008 – C.L. Hybart House and Monroe County Library
in Monroeville, Ala. were added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and
Heritage
May 22, 2010 – Town of Oak Grove, Ala. dedicated a
historical marker at the site of the Hodges meteorite site.
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