Important Events on May 22nd In History:
1906: The Wright brothers are granted a patent for a “Flying Machine”
1939: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
1942: Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allied Powers.
1947: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, providing aide to Turkey and Greece.
1957: The South African government approves racial separation at universities.
1964: President Lyndon Johnson launches his Great Society program.
1969: NASA’s Apollo 10’s Lunar Module flies within 8.4 nautical miles of the Moon’s surface.
1987: The first ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy in Auckland, New Zealand.
1998: A United States federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury regarding the Monica Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
2011: An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and causing $2.8 billion dollars in damage, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in United States history.
2012: The Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world standing at 634 meters high.
2012: SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket, becoming the first commercial flight to travel to the International Space Station.
2015: The country of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to utilize a public referendum to legalize gay marriage.
2017: United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting United States president to visit the Western Wall.
2024: Isabella Jeanne Johnson was born. She weighed 7 pounds and 1 cute little once.
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