Today in History
22 August
211 births · 120 deaths · 55 events recorded
Notable Births
All 211 ›
Stiliana Nikolova
b. 2005
Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
LaMelo Ball
b. 2001
American basketball player (born 2001)
Maxx Crosby
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Fanum (streamer)
b. 1997
American Twitch streamer (born 1997)
Lautaro Martínez
b. 1997
Argentine footballer (born 1997)
Jessica-Jane Applegate
b. 1996
British Paralympic swimmer
Somin (singer)
b. 1996
South Korean singer (born 1996)
Luke Russert
b. 1985
American news correspondent (born 1985)
Notable Deaths
All 120 ›
Arthur J. Gregg
d. 2024
US Army general (1928–2024)
Toto Cutugno
d. 2023
Italian musician (1943–2023)
Rod Gilbert
d. 2021
Canadian ice hockey player (1941–2021)
Ed King
d. 2018
American rock musician (1949–2018)
Krishna Reddy (artist)
d. 2018
Indian master-printmaker and sculptor (1925-2018)
Michael J. C. Gordon
d. 2017
British computer scientist
S. R. Nathan
d. 2016
President of Singapore from 1999 to 2011
Gina Bachauer
d. 1976
Greek pianist (1913–1976)
On This Day in History
All 55 ›2012
Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
2012–2013 Tana River District clashes
2007
The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.
Texas Rangers (baseball)
2006
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612
2006
Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
Grigori Perelman
2004
Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
The Scream
2003
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
List of justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama
1999
China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more.
China Airlines Flight 642
1992
FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
Federal Bureau of Investigation