📜 This Day in History
May 22
853Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine navy began a raid on the Nile Delta port city of Damietta, whose garrison was absent at the time.- 1826HMS Beagle departed on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America.
- 1897The first Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was opened to improve commerce and trade in the East End of London.
- 1939Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steel, a military and political alliance.
- 1987During Hindu–Muslim rioting in Meerut, India, 19 members of the Provincial Armed Constabulary allegedly massacred 42 Muslims and dumped their bodies in water canals.
- 2026A gas explosion at a coal mine in Changzhi, Shanxi, China, leaves at least 82 people dead.
