May 22nd, 2020

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What Happened On This Day – 22 May

• 2012 The world's tallest tower is opened to the public

  At 643 meters (2080 feet), the Tokyo Skytree in Japan's capital city is also the second tallest structure in the world after Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Its prime purpose is relaying TV and radio signals.

• 2010 The worst air crash involving a Boeing 737 kills 158

  Air India Express Flight 812 overshot the runway on landing at Mangalore International Airport. It fell over a cliff and burst into flames. The 737 is the world's most widely flown aircraft.

• 1980 The arcade game Pac-Man is released

  The game featuring a dot-munching round yellow figure moving through a maze has become one of the best-known video games in history. It was produced by Namco.

• 1960 The most violent earthquake in recorded history hits Chile

  The Great Chilean Earthquake rated 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale. According to estimates, between 2230 and 6000 people were killed.

• 1906 The Wright brothers' flying machine is patented

  The American aviation pioneers are credited with having performed 'the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight.' (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale)

ESTERO, Fla., May 22, 2020/PRNewswire/ - Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HTZ) ('Hertz' or the 'Company') today announced it and certain of its U.S. And Canadian subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. ESTERO, Fla., May 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HTZ) ('Hertz' or the 'Company') today announced it and certain of its U.S. And Canadian subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. May 22, 2020 was. 143rd day of the year. There were then 223 days left in 2020. 21st Friday of 2020. On the 21st week of 2020 (using US standard week number calculation). 64th day of Spring. There were 30 days left till Summer. Birthstone for this day: Emerald. This Order supersedes the May 1, 2020 Order of the Public Health Officer directing all individuals to stay at home ('Prior Stay at Home'). This Order shall become effective at 11:59 am, on May 22, 2020, and will continue to be in effect until it is rescinded or amended in writing by the Health Officer.

Discover the cosmos!Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe isfeatured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

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Explanation: With natal dust clouds in silhouette against glowing atomic gas,this colorful and chaotic vista lies within one of thelargest star forming regions in theMilky Way galaxy, the Great Carina Nebula.The telescopic close-upframes a field of view about 80 light-yearsacross, a little south and east of Eta Carinae, the nebula'smost energetic and enigmatic star.Captured under suburban skies improved during national restrictions,a composite of narrowband image data was used to create thefinal image.In it, characteristic emission from the nebula'sionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms is mapped tored, green, and blue hues,a color palette also popular in Hubble Space Telescope images.The celestial landscapeof bright ridges of emission bordered bycool, obscuring dust lies about 7,500 light-years away towardthe southern constellation Carina.

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