Today is Friday, May 22, the 142d day of 2015. There are 223 days left in the year.
Today’s birthdays: Actor Michael Constantine is 88. Conductor Peter Nero is 81. Actor-director Richard Benjamin is 77. Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw is 75. Retired All-Star pitcher Tommy John is 72. Songwriter Bernie Taupin is 65. Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is 58. Singer Morrissey is 56. Model Naomi Campbell is 45. Olympic gold-medal speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno is 33.
In 1913, the American Cancer Society was founded in New York under its original name, the American Society for the Control of Cancer.
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In 1947, the Truman Doctrine was enacted as Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
In 1960, an earthquake of magnitude 9.5, the strongest ever measured, struck southern Chile, claiming some 1,655 lives.
In 1968, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, sank in the Atlantic Ocean. (The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.)
In 1972, President Nixon began a visit to the Soviet Union, during which he and Kremlin leaders signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
In 1990, after years of conflict, pro-Western North Yemen and pro-Soviet South Yemen merged to form a single nation, the Republic of Yemen.
In 1992, after a reign lasting nearly 30 years, Johnny Carson hosted NBC’s ‘‘Tonight Show’’ for the last time.