May 22

It's May 22nd

On this day in 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.

In the month of iyyōr (May) a white sign was seen in the sky, before early twilight, in the north-east,
in the Zodiac which is called Aries, to the north from these three stars in it, which are very shining.
And it resembled in its shape a broom [...] And the sign itself remained for fifteen nights, until dawn
of the feast of Pentecost.
— Zuqnin Chronicle

1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo.

Hawkwind - Hassan i Sabbah

In 1762 – Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
Trevi Fountain in the 18th century, painted by G. P. Panini


The Four Aces - Three Coins in the Fountain

In 1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.


In 1874 – Verdi's Requiem is first performed at San Marco in Milan.
Performed by Danish National Symphony Orchestra in 2017

In 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted a U.S. patent for their "Flying-Machine".


In 1969 – Apollo 10's Lunar Module flies within 8.4 nautical miles of the Moon's surface.

In 1989 - Tin Machine releases its self-titled debut


Birthdays:

Lucie Brock-Broido
Jenny Jaybles reads "Did Not Come Back" and "Bodhisattva" by Lucie Brock-Broido

Susan Strasberg
as Penny Appleby in "Taste of Fear"

As Sally Groves in "The Trip"
as Jenny Davis in "Psych-Out"
as Mickey Terry in "The Name of the Game is Kill!


Sun Ra



Morrissey


Richard Benjamin
as Major Danby in"Catch 22"

as John Hyatt in "Saturday the 14th"


Tomás Sánchez
"Cascada en la noche"


John Flanagan

Richard Oakes


Barbara Parkins
as High School Girl in "20,000 Eyes"


Paul Nero


Keith Merrill

Kenny Ball


Harvey Milk


Marisol Escobar
"The Large Family Group"


John Mackenzie


Julius Klinger


Michael Constantine
as Ed Warner (Convict) in "The Last Mile"


Jean Tinguely
"Chaos I"



Quinn Martin

Margaret Mee

"In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests"

Laurence Olivier
Movie playlist on YouTube

Willy Stöwer
"Winter Camp of the Sailers in Wolgast"


Belmiro de Almeida
"The Chatterbox"


Fritz von Uhde
"In the Garden"


Mary Cassatt
"Young Woman in a Black and Green Bonnet


Catulle Mendès
"The Last of the Fairies"

Félix Bracquemond
"The Rainbow"


Worthington Whittredge
"Evening Glow"


Amalia Lindegren
"Sunday Evening in a Valley Cabin"


Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger
"Arcadian Landscape"


Psychic TV - Just Like Arcadia

Hubert Robert
"The Finding of the Laocoon"


Daniel Gran
"Allegory of Four Seasons"


Richard Brakenburgh
"Merry Company"


Gabriël Grupello
"Hope"

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