22 August
Notable Births
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)
Dua Lipa
b. 1995
English singer-songwriter (born 1995)
Israel Broussard
b. 1994
American actor
Olli Määttä
b. 1994
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1994)
Laura Dahlmeier
b. 1993
German biathlete (1993–2025)
Dillon Danis
b. 1993
American mixed martial artist (born 1993)
Federico Macheda
b. 1991
Italian footballer (born 1991)
Brayden Schenn
b. 1991
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Randall Cobb (American football)
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Drew Hutchison (baseball)
b. 1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Adam Thielen
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Giacomo Bonaventura
b. 1989
Italian footballer (born 1989)
Apollo Crews
b. 1987
American professional wrestler (born 1987)
Stephen Ireland
b. 1986
Irish footballer (born 1986)
Notable Deaths
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
Toots Thielemans
d. 2016
Belgian jazz musician (1922–2016)
Arthur Morris
d. 2015
Australian cricketer (1922–2015)
Ieng Thirith
d. 2015
Khmer Rouge cadre
Eric Thompson (racing driver)
d. 2015
British racing driver (1919–2015)
U. R. Ananthamurthy
d. 2014
Indian Kannada-language writer and critic (1932-2014)
Emmanuel Kriaras
d. 2014
Greek lexicographer and philologist
Pete Ladygo
d. 2014
American gridiron football player (1928–2014)
Noella Leduc
d. 2014
Baseball player
John S. Waugh
d. 2014
American chemist
Paul Poberezny
d. 2013
United States aviator, founder of Experimental Aircraft Association
Nina Bawden
d. 2012
English novelist and children's writer (1925–2012)
Paul Shan Kuo-hsi
d. 2012
Taiwanese Roman Catholic cardinal
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
1991
Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
Iceland
1989
Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
Nolan Ryan
1985
British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
1985 Manchester Airport disaster
1981
Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed.
Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103
1978
Nicaraguan Revolution: The FSLN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages.
Nicaraguan Revolution
1978
The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states.
District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment
1973
The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.
National Congress of Chile
1972
Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
Rhodesia
1971
J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
J. Edgar Hoover
1968
Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
Pope Paul VI
1966
Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
United Farm Workers
1965
Juan Marichal, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, strikes John Roseboro, catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, on the head with a bat, sparking a 14-minute brawl, one of the most violent on-field incidents in sports history.
Juan Marichal