Today in History
22 May
206 births · 85 deaths · 78 events recorded
Notable Births
All 206 ›
Peyton Elizabeth Lee
b. 2004
American actress (born 2004)
Novak Djokovic
b. 1987
Serbian tennis player (born 1987)
Maggie Q
b. 1979
American actress (born 1979)
Sean Gunn
b. 1974
American actor (born 1974)
Marisol Escobar
b. 1930
Venezuelan American sculptor (1930–2016)
Harvey Milk
b. 1930
American gay rights activist (1930–1978)
Arthur Conan Doyle
b. 1859
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
Richard Wagner
b. 1813
German composer (1813–1883)
Notable Deaths
All 85 ›
David Wilkie (swimmer)
d. 2024
Scottish swimmer (1954–2024)
Dervla Murphy
d. 2022
Irish writer and touring cyclist (1931–2022)
Judith Kerr
d. 2019
British writer and illustrator (1923–2019)
Nicky Hayden
d. 2017
American motorcycle racer
Bata Živojinović
d. 2016
Serbian actor
Albert Claude
d. 1983
Belgian-American cell biologist (1899–1983)
Lefty Grove
d. 1975
American baseball player (1900–1975)
Mordecai Manuel Noah
d. 1851
American diplomat and utopian writer (1785–1851)
On This Day in History
All 78 ›
2021
Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China.
Gansu ultramarathon disaster
2020
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people.
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303
2017
Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
Ariana Grande
2017
United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall.
Donald Trump
2015
The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to utilise a public referendum to legalise gay marriage.
Republic of Ireland
2014
General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
Prayut Chan-o-cha
2014
An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
May 2014 Ürümqi attack
2013
Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by 2 Islamic extremists in Woolwich, Southeast London
Fusilier