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May 22
HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage. (1826)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and writer is born. (1859)
The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". (1906)
First Episode of Mister roger’s friendly neighborhood airs. (1967)
Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man. (1980)
Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system. (1990)

The release of MLP:FiM? Skyrim?

Caroo, I believe the Princess is referring to This Day in history;

Well, the Porsche expansion pack for Forza Motorsport 4 came out today. I don't know about anyone else here, but I play that game a lot

Moon Breakers. nuff said.

1052 – Philip I of France is born
1707 – Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist is born
1788 – South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.
1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1910 – Scatman Crothers, American actor singer, dancer, and musicia is born
1939 – Jack McCarthy, American poet is born
1958 – Drew Carey, American actor and comedian is born
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.

15 BC – Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander is born.
1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter is born.
1953 – Alfred Molina, London-born Spanish-Italian actor is born.
1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
2001 – Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.

1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1630 – King Charles II of England is born
1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1907 – Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and senator
1917 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States is born
1940 – The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history.
1945 – Joyce Tenneson, American photographer is born
1948 – Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1985 – Nathan Horton, Canadian ice hockey player is born
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.

Navy gunboats capture three British boats on Lake Ontario near Sandy Creek, N.Y., 1814

Confederates evacuate Corinth, Mississippi, 1862

Civil War dead honored on Decoration Day, 1868

The First Balkan War ends, 1913

1574 – Henry III becomes King of France.
1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler is born
1908 – Mel Blanc, the man of 1000 voices is born
1910 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete silver and gold medalist in 1936 berlin Olympics is born
1918 – Bob Evans, American restaurateur is born
1922 – In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
1927 – Clint Walker, American actor is born
1934 – Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut first human to perform a spacewalk
1962 – Kevin Eastman, Co-creator of teenage mutant ninja turtles is born
1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
1974 – Cee-Lo Green, American musician best known for his song Crazy is born