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May 22nd
in history

1455: King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses.

1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.

1856: Senator Preston Brooks of South Carolina strikes Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery.

1863: Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins.

1868: The Great Train Robbery takes place as seven members of the Reno Gang make off with $98,000 in cash from a train's safe in Indiana.

Born May 22nd

1828: Albrecht von Grafe, German eye surgeon, founder of modern opthamology.

1844: Mary Cassatt, impressionist painter.

1859: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, creator of the Sherlock Holmes series.

1907: Laurence Olivier, actor.

1920: Thomas Gold, astronomer.