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11 May 2022 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 11 May 2022 was a Wednesday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2022
- The Irish chart song for 2022 was “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals.
- Top Film of 2022
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2022 was Avatar: The Way of Water.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 11 May is Taurus.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 11 May 2022 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for May is Emerald.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 11 May 2022 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 11 May
- 2010 David Cameron takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats form the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
- 2011 An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.
- 2011 The Istanbul Convention is signed in Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2024 Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
- 2024 The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö, Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland win with their song "The Code", making them the contest's first non-binary winner.
Famous people born on 11 May
- Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress (born 1999)
- Natasha Richardson, English actress (1963–2009)
- Lana Condor, American actress (born 1997)
- Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (1918–1988)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2022 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2022 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 4 February – RTÉ selected Brooke Scullion to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy in May with the song "That's Rich".
- 24 February – The taoiseach condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine as "an outrageous and moral breach of the most fundamental principles of international law."
- 1 April – Atlantic Technological University, comprising the three institutes of technology in the northern and western regions – Letterkenny IT, Galway-Mayo IT and Sligo IT – formally came into operation, under its president Dr. Orla Flynn.
Life in Ireland in 2022
Taoiseach
Micheál Martin
Petrol (per litre)
€1.92/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.85
Average House
€370,000
Weekly Wage
€620
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