What day of the week was May 22, 1947?

The day of the week May 22nd, 1947 fell on was a Thursday.

Joseph P. McFadden the American bishop (d. 2013) was born on 22 May in 1947. As was Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos the Egyptian-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1997) .

Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism the the U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.