Main events in the day 22 de maio.
Hoje, quarta-feira, It is the hundredth fortieth second day of the year.
Missing 223 days to the end of 2019.
International Day for Biological Diversity and International Biodiversity Day, Day of the Portuguese Author and hug Day.
1813 – Born German composer Richard Wagner.
1819 – The Savannah starts in Georgia, EUA, the first Atlantic crossing by a steamship, which will end in Liverpool, Reino Unido.
1871 – Open Democratic Conference, Casino Lisbonense, with a discussion of "The Spirit of the Conferences", Antero de Quental.
1894 – Delivering a project of the French architect Louis-Ernest Reynaud modified in Lisbon by Emilio Rossi and with a fresh set designer Luigi Manini, D is opened the Theater. Amelia (em maio de 1971 passes the São Luiz Municipal Theater), on the eighth Queen wedding anniversary with D. Carlos I. The premiere is done with the operetta The Daughter of the Drum-Major, Offenbach.
1911 - Shield Creation, monetary unit of the Portuguese Republic.
1907 - born Georges Prosper Remi, Hergé, Belgian author of Comics, creator of Tintin.
1925 – It founded the Society of Writers and Composers Portuguese Theater.
1939 – The Germany, Hitler, and Italy, Mussolini, sign a military alliance.
1953 – Premiere to work “Kontra-Punkte”, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.
1973 – The US and the UK vetoed the resolution of the UN Security Council aimed at extending the sanctions to Portugal, the maintenance of colonies in Africa.
1986 – the first edition is launched in English of the Soviet newspaper Pravda.
1991 – Thousand days after the fire of August 1988, start the Chiado reconstruction works, em Lisboa.
1992 – Cimeira La Rochelle. France and Germany create a joint force of 35 a 45 thousand soldiers to reinforce NATO.
1996 – The Portuguese Society of Authors delivers Career Award to writer David Mourao-Ferreira.
1998 - Opening to the public of EXPO 98.
– Dies, com 53 anos, Francisco Lucas Pires, ex-head of the CDS, Mr, MEP, former Minister of Culture and professor at the Law School of the University of Coimbra.
2001 - The electronic bracelets are beginning to be used as an alternative to custody.
2002 - Approval of the protocols between the Council of Lisbon, Sporting and Benfica for the construction of stadiums.
2003 - Probation is decreed Paulo Pedroso, the Casa Pia.
2006 – The Superior Council for National Defense approves the proposed revision of the Military Program Law.
– Ministers of EU Fisheries approve the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, providing for the allocation of 14 licences to Portugal. Takes effect 01 de junho.
– disclosed are, in Dili, the results of the international tender for oil exploration in East Timor Sea. Galp Energia loses to one of the reference shareholders, the Italian ENI.
2007 – The European Parliament approves the program “Daphne III”, which provides for an investment of 116,85 milhões de euros até 2013 in preventing and combating violence against children, young people and women.
– The journalist Ricardo Bordallo Lusa agency is distinguished by the Alliance of Mediterranean News agencies with the award for best journalistic article of the biennium 2006/2007, with the work “Illegal immigrants are the slaves of time”.
– The Director of the school of Biotechnology at the Catholic University of Oporto, Xavier Malcata, It is awarded the Danisco International Dairy Science Award 2007, in the area of science and technology of dairy products, established in 1980 by the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA).
– A group of directors, led by Martin Scorsese, launches in Cannes the World Cinema Foundation, to protect, retrieve and disseminate the cinematographic heritage II, in particular the films “orphans”, abandoned or forgotten.
2009 – A woman 66 anos, with terminal cancer, becomes the first person to die under the new law on assisted suicide in Washington State.
– The Portuguese Society of Authors delivery, pela primeira vez, the Pro Awards-Author, that distinguish between other, the agency Lusa.
– Die Mario Lemos Pires, General, last Governor of Portuguese Timor-Leste. Tinha 78 anos.
2010 – Jose Mourinho won the Champions League in the service of Inter Milan, beating in the final Bayern Munich by 2-0, em Madrid.
– 158 killed and eight survivors, seven of them wounded, It is the balance of the crash of a Boeing-737 of Air India Express, from Dubai, at Mangalore airport (India).
2011 - By winning the Portugal Cup André Villas-Boas becomes the second coach in the history of FC Porto to win four trophies in a single season, equaling Croatian Tomislav Ivic or, who achieved the feat at the time 1987/1988.
– Sister Maria Clara of the Child Jesus becomes the sixth blessed of Portugal.
– Death of former cyclist Antonio Lima Fernandes, who won eight stages on the way back to Portugal and was two-time Portuguese speed. Tinha 76 anos.
– The American composer and Director Joseph Brooks, de 73 anos, author of a popular song in years 1970, “You Light Up My Life”, awarded an Oscar, Found Dead in New York.
2012 -Dies, aos 82 anos, Manolo Vidal, former footballer and Manager of Sporting.
2013 - Die Solomon Manhiça, musicologist and author of the anthem of Mozambique, “Pátria Amada”, and former Deputy Minister of culture, Youth and sports.
2014 – coup in Thailand, by the Thai army, suspending the constitution and the government resigns, but decides to keep the Senate functions.
2016 – Greek parliament approves austerity measures demanded by lenders for the granting of a new installment of the third bailout program the country, traded in 2015.
– António Costa is re-elected general secretary of the PS, in direct elections by socialist militants 95,3% dos votos, contra 2,8% the former leader Daniel Adrião.
– Morre Nick Menza, ex-Megadeth band. Tinha 51 anos.
2017 – At least 22 people die and 59 injured in an explosion at the Arena in Manchester, in northern England, at the end of a concert of the singer Ariana Grande.
The next day, the extremist group Islamic State claims the attack.
– Dies, aos 36 anos, Nicky Hayden, World Champion MotoGP rider 2006, as a result of being hit when he circulated a bike.
