Birthdays

Richard Lee Turberville Beale
Turns 40 on this date

Jeremiah Tilford Boyle
Turns 41 on this date

Sydney Howard Gay
Turns 45 on this date

Milton Slocum Latham
Turns 32 on this date

Arthur Tappan
Turns 73 on this date
Events
Cultural | Arthur Conan Doyle is born in Edinburgh | 05/22/1859 |
Foreign | King "Bomba" dies in his palace in Caserta in Italy, aged forty-nine | 05/22/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Herald, “Does Mr. Crittenden Back Out?,” May 22, 1859 | 05/22/1859 |