Historical Events - May 22

1762 : Treaty of Hamburg signed between Sweden and Prussia.

1906 : The Wright brothers patented a flying machine.

1927 : A magnitude 8.3 earthquake near Xinjiang, China, killed 200,000 people.

1960 : Great Chilean earthquake, the strongest in the world with a magnitude of 9.5.

1961: The Dowry Prohibition Act was enacted with the consent of the President.

1972 : Ceylon adopted a new constitution and became a republic. The country was renamed Sri Lanka and entered the Commonwealth.

1987 : Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.

2004 : Dr. Manmohan Singh became the 13th Prime Minister of India.

Famous Birthdays  -May 22

1772: Raja Ram Mohan Roy, an Indian historian and one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha.

1783: William Sturgeon, an English physicist, and inventor.

1813: Richard Wagner, a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor.

1859: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer, and medical doctor. He created the character, Sherlock Holmes.

1871: Vishnu Vaman Bapat, an Indian philosopher.

1878: The Great Gama was an Indian wrestler who remained the undefeated champion of the world.

1900: Devdas Mohandas Gandhi, the fourth and youngest son of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

1905: Bodo von Borries, a German physicist. He was the co-inventor of the electron microscope.

1959: Mehbooba Mufti, an Indian politician and the last Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

1984: Dustin Moskovitz, an American Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook.

1987: Novak Djokovic, a Serbian professional tennis player.

Death Anniversaries - May 22

337 AD: Constantine the Great, the Roman emperor.

1545: Sher Shah Suri, the founder of the Suri Empire in India.

1802: Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington.

1885: Victor Hugo, a French poet, novelist, and dramatist.

1991: Shripad Amrit Dange, a founding member of the Communist Party of India.

2010: Veturi Sundararama Murthy, an Indian poet, and lyricist.