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May 22

4 sourced moments from May 22 in history: Wars of the Roses began at St Albans in 1455 with few dead; The Wright brothers patent the secret of controlled flight (1906); The 1960 Valdivia earthquake is the most powerful ever recorded, at magnitude 9.5, plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on May 22

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1980 Technology · Computing & AI

Pac-Man makes its debut in a Tokyo arcade

A maze, a hungry yellow circle, and four ghosts quietly went on test in Shibuya—the date Namco still calls Pac-Man's birthday.

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1960 Earth & Climate · Natural Disasters

The 1960 Valdivia earthquake is the most powerful ever recorded, at magnitude 9.5

When a 1,000-kilometre slab of crust slipped beneath Chile in 1960, instruments logged the strongest shock in seismic history.

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1906 Technology · Inventions

The Wright brothers patent the secret of controlled flight

More than two years after Kitty Hawk, the Wrights won a patent not on a plane but on the very idea of steering one.

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1455 History · Medieval

Wars of the Roses began at St Albans in 1455 with few dead

The 1455 street fight that opened the Wars of the Roses killed perhaps 100 to 400 men, but among them were the king's chief minister and two great northern lords.

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