May 22<\/p>\n
337 – Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, otherwise known as Constantine the Great, the first ‘official’\u00a0 Christian Emperor of Rome, dies at age 65 in Nicomedia, Bithynia province.<\/p>\n
1176 – Hashshashins fail in their attempt to assassinate\u00a0 \u1e62al\u0101\u1e25 ad-D\u012bn Y\u016bsuf ibn Ayy\u016bb, more well known in the west as Saladin, near Aleppo, Syria.<\/p>\n
1520 \u2013 Conquistador and Deputy governor Pedro de Alvarado, on learning that the festival of T\u00f3xcatl that Emperor Montezuma had requested, included a human sacrifice, has his troops interrupt the ceremony and in the process kill almost all the Aztecs in the temple of Tezcatlipoca.<\/p>\n
1804 \u2013 With the arrival of William Clark and men from Camp Dubois, the Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from St. Charles, Missouri.<\/p>\n
1807 \u2013 A grand jury indicts former Vice President Aaron Burr on a charge of treason for allegedly attempting to help Mexico overthrow Spanish control there.<\/p>\n
1819 \u2013 SS Savannah,<\/em> a hybrid sail\/sidewheel steamship, leaves port at Savannah, Georgia on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n 1846 \u2013 The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.<\/p>\n 1849 \u2013 Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.<\/p>\n 1856 \u2013 Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the\u00a0 Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.<\/p>\n 1858 –\u00a0 The Confederaci\u00f3n Granadina (now the separate nations of Panama, Colombia & parts of Brazil) is formed by the congress of the Republic of New Granada at Bogot\u00e1 passing a change in the constitution<\/p>\n 1866 \u2013 Buying and reorganizing the New Haven Arms Company, Oliver Winchester founds the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.<\/p>\n 1872 \u2013 President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but a few Confederate sympathizers.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2013 The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.<\/p>\n 1906 \u2013 The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.<\/p>\n 1915 \u2013 Mount Lassen in northern California erupts, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul General to Israel, is shot in Jerusalem by an unknown assassin, dying the next day.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 Continental Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 707, crashes in Unionville, Missouri after what is determined to be a suicide detonating a dynamite bomb on board for an insurance payout, killing 44 of 45 crew and passengers on board with 1 passenger dying later at a hospital.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society program.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 The Skipjack<\/em> class nuclear powered submarine USS Scorpion<\/em> sinks\u00a0 400 miles southwest of the Azores with the loss of all 99 men aboard.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 Commander Thomas P. Stafford and Lunar Module Pilot John W. Young, flying the Apollo 10 Lunar Module\u00a0Snoopy, <\/em>separate from the Command Module\u00a0Charlie Brown <\/em>and descend to within 8.4 nautical miles of the moon’s surface before returning to rendezvous with the Command Module.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 A jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 An EF5 force tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and causing $2.8 billion in damage, the costliest single tornado in U.S. history.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and becomes the 1st sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall of the temple Mount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 22 337 – Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, otherwise known as Constantine the Great, the first ‘official’\u00a0 Christian Emperor of Rome, dies at age 65 in Nicomedia, Bithynia province. 1176 – Hashshashins fail in their attempt to assassinate\u00a0 \u1e62al\u0101\u1e25 ad-D\u012bn Y\u016bsuf ibn Ayy\u016bb, more well known in the west as Saladin, near Aleppo, Syria. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55106"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93049,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55106\/revisions\/93049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}