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On This Day In History for May 22, 2024
This is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 223 days remaining in 2024.
- It was on this date in 1762, that Trevi Fountain was officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
- Also today in 1804, The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.
- On May 22, 1826, HMS Beagle departed on its first voyage.
- Also on May 22, 1846, The Associated Press was formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
- Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent on this date in 1849.
- It was also this date in 1866 that Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms.
- May 22, 1906, The Wright brothers were granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.
- Apollo 10’s Lunar Module flew within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the Moon’s surface on this date in 1969.
- Also on May 22, 2012, SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launched a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor, William Sturgeon, born on this date in 1783.
- Brazilian engineer and politician, Augusto Pestana was born 156 years ago today.
- Born May 22, 1904, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor Uno Lamm.
- German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope, Bodo von Borries was born 119 years ago today.
- Born May 22, 1912, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Herbert C. Brown.
- Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic, Thomas Gold, born on this date in 1920.
- Also turning 78 today is Russian-Ukrainian astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravleva.
- English physicist and academic, Michael Green is 78 today.
- Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate, Shuji Nakamura, born on this date in 1954.
Listener Birthdays
- 6 – Amber Pace (not really a listener, but a mother and a wife of listeners)
- 6 – Bill Barbour
- 6 – Steve Bickle
- 6 – Brian Brown
- 8 – Curtis Parish
- 12 – Amanda Huggenkiss
- 14 – JPCJ
- 16 – Dan Delaney
- 22 – Tim Elliott
- 23 – Kris Ziel Host and producer of The AVScast and 24 Under Review
- 26 – Eli Yukelzon
- 27 – Tonya from Dancing With Elephants
- 28 – Chris Martens, Host of The Jesus Geeks, Z Net Central, and Producer of On The Edge Of Darkness
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for May 22, 2024
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News
- How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
- The Bennu samples have rocks unlike any meteorite ever found
- Hypnotoad From ‘Futurama’ Has Officially Overtaken the National Park Service | Cracked.com
- Near-flawless quantum teleportation demonstrated in groundbreaking experiment –
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