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Today in History: May 22

1246 Henry Raspe is elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France.

1455 King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses.

1856 U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery, which included an insult to Brooks' cousin, Senator Andrew Butler.

1863 Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins.

1872 The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners.

1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign a "Pact of Steel" forming the Axis powers.

1967 The children's program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiers.

1985 Baseball player Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108.

1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance on The Tonight Show on NBC, after 30 years as the program's host.

2004 An EF4 tornado with a record-setting width of 2.5 miles wipes out Hallam, Nebraska, killing 1 person.

2011 An EF5 tornado kills at least 158 people in Joplin, Missouri, the largest death toll from a tornado since record-keeping began in 1950.

Born on May 22
1928 T Boone Pickens, oil magnate and financier who developed a reputation as a corporate raider in the 1980s.

1942 Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, infamous as Unabomber terrorist.

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Breaking news :NASA wants first person to reach Mars, to be a woman.

So that when men arrive, dinner would be ready.