Today is Saturday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2010. There are 223 days left in the year.
1570 _ First atlas, with 70 maps, published
1761 _ First life insurance policy in U.S. issued in Philadelphia
1856 _ Violence in Senate, South Carolina Representative Brooks used a cane on Massachusetts Senator Sumner
1900 _ Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative
1906 _ Wright Brothers patent an airplane
1939 _ Hitler and Mussolini sign ``Pact of Steel"
1947 _ First U.S. ballistic missile fired
1964 _ LBJ presents ``Great Society"
1973 _ President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up
1990 _ North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen