| General Information for May 22nd 2016 |
| There are 3 public holidays today. |
| Day 143 of 2016 |
| 223 days left in 2016 |
| Week 20 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 2006 - At 1pm, thousands of GCSE students across the United Kingdom sit down to their first Humanities paper - little do they know that they are victims of the 2006 GCSE Humanities Paper Debacle. |
| 1915 - The worst train crash ever to occur in the UK takes place at Quintinshill in Scotland - the accident involves five different trains, with a death toll of 227. |
| 1455 - The Yorkists are victorious over the Lancastrians at the First Battle of St Albans, heralding the start of the War of the Roses. |
| 337 - Emperor Constantine, founder of the city of Byzantium and the Byzantine Empire, dies. |