History for May 22

  
History for May 22 - On-This-Day.com
Wilhelm Richard Wagner 1813 - Composer, Mary Cassatt 1844 - Painter, printmaker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 - Author of Sherlock Holmes detective novels 


Sir Laurence Olivier (Laurence Kerr Olivier) 1907 - Actor, director, producer, Vance Packard 1914 - Journalist, social critic, author, T. Boone Pickens 1928 - Oil tycoon 


1819 - The steamship Savannah became the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean.


1849 - Abraham Lincoln received a patent for the floating dry dock.


1868 - Near Marshfield, IN, The "Great Train Robbery" took place. The robbery was worth $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds to the seven members of the Reno gang.


1872 - The Amnesty Act restored civil rights to Southerners.


1892 - Dr. Washington Sheffield invented the toothpaste tube.


1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a military alliance between Germany and Italy known as the "Pact of Steel."


1947 - The Truman Doctrine was enacted by the U.S. Congress to appropriate military and economic aid Turkey and Greece.


1968 - The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was lost. The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.