📅 May 22 · Treaty of Lübeck, HMS Beagle, 1960 Valdivia earthquake, Killing of Chandra Levy
May 22 in history: • 1629 – Albrecht von Wallenstein and King Christian IV of Denmark signed the Treaty of Lübeck to end Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War. → go there • 1826 – HMS Beagle (pictured) departed on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America. → go there • 1960 – The most powerful earthquake ever recorded, registering approximately 9.5 Mw, struck near Valdivia, Chile, generating tsunamis that reached Hawaii and Japan. → go there • 2002 – Police announced that the skeletal remains of Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy, who had been missing for a year, had been found in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. → go there Born 626: Itzam Kʼan Ahk I Wiki link Born 1846: Rita Cetina Gutiérrez Wiki link Born 1914: Sun Ra Wiki link Born 2001: Joshua Zirkzee Wiki link Pictured: HMS ''Beagle''.