HISTORY
On this day May 22-28, 2022 (week 21)
May 22, 2022 - May 28, 2022 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features the first “Flying Machine”, Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich, the independence of Ecuador, the first commercial reusable spacecraft, the Le Mans 24-hour race, Shakespeare’s Globe theatre and the first Volkswagen
May 22, 1906: Aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright patented their method of flight control on their “Flying Machine”. They made the first powered flight in 1903
May 23, 2021: Dissident Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich was arrested after his Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to divert to Minsk
May 24, 1822: Antonio Jose de Sucre defeated the Spanish royalists at the Battle of Pichincha, securing the independence of Quito, later to become Ecuador
May 25, 2012: The Dragon, developed by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, became the first commercial reusable spacecraft to make a successful rendezvous with the ISS
May 26, 1923: The first Le Mans 24-hour race was run, on public roads around the French town. It has since evolved into the most famous endurance race in motor sport
May 27, 1997: A reconstruction of the Globe theatre opened in London with Shakespeare’s Henry V, some 400 years after the play was first staged at the original Globe
May 28. 1937: The Volkswagen company was founded in Germany to make a revolutionary vehicle designed by Ferdinand Porsche. Hitler laid the cornerstone of the factory in 1938