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Today in History
May 22
| 1246 | Henry Raspe is elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France. | |
| 1455 | King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses. | |
| 1804 | The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri. | |
| 1856 | Senator Preston Brooks of South Carolina strikes Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery. | |
| 1863 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins. | |
| 1868 | The "Great Train Robbery" takes place as seven members of the Reno Gang make off with $98,000 in cash from a train's safe in Indiana. | |
| 1872 | The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners. | |
| 1882 | The United States formally recognizes Korea. | |
| 1908 | The Wright brothers register their flying machine for a U.S. patent. | |
| 1939 | Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign a "Pact of Steel" forming the Axis powers. | |
| 1947 | The Truman Doctrine brings aid to Turkey and Greece. | |
| 1967 | The children's program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiers. | |
| 1972 | Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified. | |
| 1985 | Baseball player Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108. | |
| 1987 | An Iraqi missile hits the American frigate USS Stark in the Persian Gulf. | |
| 1990 | In the Middle East, North and South Yemen merge to become a single state. | |
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| 1813 | Richard Wagner, German composer. | |
| 1828 | Albrecht von Grafe, German eye surgeon, founder of modern opthamology. | |
| 1844 | Mary Cassatt, impressionist painter. | |
| 1859 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, creator of the Sherlock Holmes series. | |
| 1907 | Laurence Olivier, actor. | |
| 1920 | Thomas Gold, astronomer. | |
| 1927 | Peter Mathiessen, writer. | |
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I do not understand why HistoryNet insists on making Preston Brooks a "senator". see today (22MAY) in history. This is the 3rd time that I see HistoryNet stating that this fool from S. Carolina was a senator when, in point of obvious fact, he was only a "congressman". a represantative of said state to the US Congress NOT the US SENATE!
well, here it is, 23 May 2012, two (2) years after my previous post and the erroneous entry regarding Preston Brooks STILL HAS NOT BEEN CORRECTED! perhaps by the time 23 May rolls around next year we will see the error straightened out.