May 22: Unity Day in Yemen (1990)
- 853 – Byzantine–Arab Wars: The Byzantine navy sacked and plundered the port city of Damietta on the Nile Delta, whose garrison was absent at the time.
- 1826 – HMS Beagle departed on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America.
- 1915 – Lassen Peak, in the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California, violently erupted (pictured), the only volcanic eruption in the contiguous U.S. in the 20th century until Mount St. Helens in 1980.
- 1915 – Five trains were involved in the United Kingdom's deadliest train crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246 others.
- 1945 – The United States Army formed a plan to evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
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