In 1795, Scotish explorer Mungo Park set out on his first voyage to Africa.

In 1859, Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born.

In 1908, Wilbur and Orville Wright patented their flying machine four years after their historic flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

From the Telegraph & Argus of May 22nd, 1978...

Yorkshire's 19th Century industrial heritage could attract large numbers of tourists to the area and create employment, a Bradford professor told a meeting at Leeds Polytechnic. Prof. Tom Stoner, chairman of Bradford University's School of Science and Sociology, was speaking at a meeting organised by the Town and Country Planning Association's South and West Yorkshire's Planning Forum.

From the Telegraph & Argus of May 22nd, 1953...

A resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Korea or the withdrawal of all British troops was passed unanimously last night by Bradford Trades Council. Moving the resolution, Mr. Jack Ward, a delegate from the Amalgamated Engineering Union, said there was a great danger at the present time that the truce talks in Korea might again break down unless the British people took decisive action.