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Today in history for May 22,
1455 — The War of the Roses begins in England.
1781 — The Patriot siege of Ninety Six, South Carolina begins during the American Revolution.
1783 — The Zong slave ship trial begins, forcing courts to grapple with whether the murder of enslaved people constituted an insurance loss or a crime.
1802 — First Lady Martha Washington dies.
1839 — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, is born.
1843 — The first major wagon train to the Pacific Northwest departs, sending roughly 1,000 pioneers west on the Oregon Trail.
1856 — A Southern congressman beats a Northern senator with a cane in the halls of Congress in one of the most notorious acts of political violence in American history.
1859 — Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1939 — Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel, cementing the Axis alliance ahead of World War II.
1958 — Jerry Lee Lewis causes a scandal in London when it is revealed he has married his 13-year-old cousin, effectively derailing his career in Britain.
1972 — President Nixon arrives in Moscow for a historic summit with Soviet leaders.
1981 — Wayne Williams is questioned by police in connection with the Atlanta child murders.
1990 — South Yemen and North Yemen unify as the Republic of Yemen.
2002 — The remains of Chandra Levy are found in a Washington, D.C., park, more than a year after her disappearance.
2004 — Michael Moore’s controversial documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” wins the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
2004 — President George W. Bush falls from his bicycle while riding at his Crawford, Texas, ranch.
2017 — A suicide bomber attacks Manchester Arena in England following an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people.