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337 AD: ‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’ is an adage from the days when it was customary to beat misbehaving children for even the mildest transgression. It is an approach to parenthood that Constantine the Great would have followed until he died on this day. He demonstrated his belief in strict discipline and unbending principles when he ordered the execution of his eldest son and heir, Flavius Crispus, who might have committed adultery. And for good measure, Constantine also had his wife, Fausta, put to death.
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1787: The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is founded in London. Its mission is not to end slavery throughout the world but to end Britain’s involvement in the slave trade, and stop the practice of slavery on British lands.
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1799: Napoleon stated his support of re-establishing Jerusalem for Jews.
The leading French newspaper during the French Revolution, “Le Moniteur Universel,” published Napoleon’s proclamation. He called for all the Jews of Asia and Africa to support him to re-establish the ancient Jerusalem.
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1849: Abraham Lincoln received a patent for a device that would lift a boat over shoals and obstructions. He was the only US President to achieve this accomplishment.
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1856: Senator Brooks from South Carolina used a cane to hit a Massachusetts Senator, Charles Sumner, after Sumner criticized slave owners.
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1906: The Wright brothers’ flying machine is patented. The American aviation pioneers are credited with having performed “the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight.” (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale)
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1939: Germany’s Adolf Hitler and Italy’s Benito Mussolini sign the “Pact of Steel” formalizing the 1936 alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1948: Continuing its attacks against the new state of Israel, the Royal Egyptian Air Force strikes the British Royal Air Force’s air base near Haifa, claiming they mistook it for the Israeli Air Force base at Megiddo Airport.
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1960: The most violent earthquake in recorded history hits Chile. The Great Chilean Earthquake rated 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale. According to estimates, between 2230 and 6000 people were killed.
1964: The Lake Chad Convention establishing the use of the Central African Lake is signed by Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria. However, the lake will shrink in size by over 90% by today’s climate change records due to rising human population competing for resources, and unplanned irrigation.
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1973: The NYSC scheme was created in a bid to reconstruct, reconcile, and rebuild the country after the Nigerian Civil War. It was established by decree No.24 of 22nd May 1973 to encourage common ties among the youths of Nigeria and to promote national unity.
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1980: The arcade game Pac-Man is released. The game featuring a dot-munching round yellow figure moving through a maze has become one of the best-known video games in history. It was produced by Namco.
2004: George W. Bush falls from his bicycle. President George Bush is in a bicycle accident. Bush had taken up mountain biking for exercise at the suggestion of physicians. Despite scrapes and scratches on his chin, lip, nose, hand, and knees, Bush—who was wearing a helmet at the time—got back on his bike and finished the course.
2010: The worst air crash involving a Boeing 737 kills 158. Air India Express Flight 812 overshot the runway on landing at Mangalore International Airport. It fell over a cliff and burst into flames. The 737 is the world’s most widely flown aircraft.
2012: The Tokyo Skytree is opened to the public. At 643 meters (2080 feet), the Tokyo Skytree in Japan’s capital city is also the second tallest structure in the world after Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Its prime purpose is relaying TV and radio signals.
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BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: May 22
Naomi Campbell, 54 years
Naomi Elaine Campbell an English model and media personality was born on May 22, 1970. Beginning her career at the age of 8, Campbell was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press. She was the first black woman to appear as a model on the covers of Time and Vogue France.
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Maggie Q, 45 years
Margaret Denise Quigley, professionally known as Maggie Q, an American actress was born on 22 May 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. She began her professional career in Hong Kong, with starring roles in the action films Gen-Y Cops and Naked Weapon, before appearing in the American productions Mission: Impossible III, Live Free or Die Hard, Priest, and The Protégé.
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1936: Abiola Irele (22 May 1936 – 2 July 2017)
Francis Abiola Irele was a Nigerian intellectual literary scholar, from Igbo-Ora, Nigeria. He studied English and French literature as a means to understand the philosophy of Négritude, which seeks to define African thought in post-colonial Africa. He was Provost at Kwara State University, founded in 2009 in Ilorin, Nigeria. His theories made him the dean of African literary scholars worldwide. He died at the age of 81.
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