What happend on 22nd May

21.05
23.05
1908

The Wright Brothers patent their aircraft.

1906

The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, opens in Athens.

1872

Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

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").

1840

The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.

1819

The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.

1807

A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.

1762

Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.

1455

Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.

1176

Murder attempt by the Hashshashin (Assassins) on Saladin near Aleppo.