One Day at a Time

From Bertha's journal:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births, and one death in your journal, including the year.

May 22

Facts:
1455 - Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America. [commentary: Huh? obviously hasn't gone too far...]
1967 - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, the longest-running children's series on U.S. television, airs its first episode.

Births:
1844 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930) [commentary: I always liked this one]

Death:
1885 - Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)