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May 22nd ....
334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus....
1819 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1826 - First voyage of HMS Beagle
1843 - Great Emigration departs for Oregon..
International Day for Biological Diversity...
2011 - The day the World woke and discovered it was populated by non-virtuous folk.
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