May 22

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1176	The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin nearAleppo.	Muse	Assassin	Black Holes and Revelations
2.	1843	Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missourito what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.	John McCormack	There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding	Victor 64694
3.	1856	Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas").	MRR-ADM	Beat	Untitled
4.	1906	The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".	Neutral Milk Hotel	Synthetic Flying Machine	Inventing Yourself a Shortcake
5.	1960	An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.	Beck	Earthquake Weather	Guero
6.	1980	Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.	Aesop Rock	The Greatest Pacman Victory in History	Bazooka Tooth

(Historical facts about May 22 are from Wikipedia.)