What day of the week was May 22, 1849?

The day of the week May 22nd, 1849 fell on was a Tuesday.

Louis Perrier the Swiss colonel and politician (d. 1913) was born on 22 May in 1849. As was Aston Webb the English architect and academic, designed the Victoria Memorial and The Mall (d. 1930) .

Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river the making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.