22 May
Notable Births
Peyton Elizabeth Lee
b. 2004
American actress (born 2004)
Anthony Richardson (American football)
b. 2002
American football player (born 2002)
Emma Chamberlain
b. 2001
American media personality (born 2001)
Joshua Zirkzee
b. 2001
Dutch footballer (born 2001)
Samuel Chukwueze
b. 1999
Nigerian footballer (born 1999)
Hōshōryū Tomokatsu
b. 1999
Mongolian sumo wrestler (born 1999)
Lauri Markkanen
b. 1997
Finnish basketball player (born 1997)
Florian Luger
b. 1994
Austrian male fashion model (born 1994)
Anna Baryshnikov
b. 1992
American actress
Joel Obi
b. 1991
Nigerian footballer (born 1991)
Suho
b. 1991
South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (born 1991)
Wyatt Roy
b. 1990
Australian politician (born 1990)
Corey Dickerson
b. 1989
American baseball player (born 1989)
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
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
Marques Haynes
d. 2015
American basketball player (1926–2015)
Vladimir Katriuk
d. 2015
Ukrainian-Canadian Nazi collaborator (1921–2015)
Sigurd Schmidt
d. 2013
Russian historian (1922–2013)
Muzafar Bhutto
d. 2012
Sindhi nationalist politician
Wesley A. Brown
d. 2012
American naval officer
Joseph Brooks (songwriter)
d. 2011
American director and composer (1938–2011)
Martin Gardner
d. 2010
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
Robert Asprin
d. 2008
American science fiction and fantasy author (1946–2008)
Pemba Doma Sherpa
d. 2007
Nepalese mountain climber
Lee Jong-wook
d. 2006
South Korean physician (1945–2006)
Charilaos Florakis
d. 2005
Greek communist politician
Thurl Ravenscroft
d. 2005
American actor (1914–2005)
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
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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
2012
Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
Tokyo Skytree
2012
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2
2011
An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
Joplin tornado
2010
Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.
Air India Express Flight 812
2010
Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2–0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League).
Inter Milan
2002
Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Civil rights movement
2000
In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
Sri Lanka
1998
A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
United States Secret Service
1996
The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.
Aung San Suu Kyi
1994
A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Haiti
1992
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1990
North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
Yemen Arab Republic