About the day » Tuesday May 22, 2012Calender converter

• Mya Jean Sneller, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota († 2019)

• Berendina van Essen (80), Nijkerk
• Adrianus Petrus Josephus (Adriaan) van der Weijden (88), Zevenhoven, Nederland
• Aagje de Vries (99)
• Angela Kasbergen (74), Roosendaal
• Antoon Wiepke Jan Kroes (70), IJsselstein
• annie KEIZERWAARD (96), oud-beijerland
• ? ? (80)
• Christina Berendina Coemans (86), Brampton, Ontario, Canada
• B.J.A. Kloppenborg
• Edo de Graaff (90), Berg en Dal, Nederland

• 1988 » Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress
• 1989 » Corey Dickerson, American baseball player
• 1990 » Wyatt Roy, Australian politician
• 1991 » Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » Suho, South Korean singer and actor
• 1992 » Anna Baryshnikov, American actress
• 1994 » Florian Luger, Austrian male model
• 1998 » Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model
• 1999 » Camren Bicondova, American actress
• 1999 » Femke Huijzer, Dutch model

• 2007 » Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970)
• 2008 » Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (b. 1946)
• 2010 » Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914)
• 2011 » Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938)
• 2012 » Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1970)
• 2012 » Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927)
• 2013 » Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2015 » Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (b. 1921)
• 2016 » Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
• February 22 » A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
• June 11 » More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
• June 13 » A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
• September 7 » Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
• November 15 » Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
• December 12 » North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2.

The temperature on May 22, 2012 was between 14.7 °C and 28.4 °C and averaged 21.4 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.