May 22
1455 - The first battle in the 30-year War of Roses took place at St. Albans.
1761 - The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued in Philadelphia.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln received patent #6469 for his floating dry dock.
1927 - An earthquake near Xining, China, measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale, claimed more than 200,000 lives.
1939 - The foreign ministers of Germany and Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano, signed a "Pact of Steel" committing the two countries to a military alliance.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman's "Truman Doctrine" brought aid to Greece and Turkey to combat the spread of communism.
1960 - An earthquake of magnitude 9.5, the strongest ever measured, struck southern Chile, claiming some 1,655 lives.
1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11, en route from Chicago to Kansas City, Missouri, crashed after a bomb apparently brought on board by a passenger exploded, killing all 45 occupants of the Boeing 707.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking at the University of Michigan, outlined the goals of his "Great Society," saying that it "rests on abundance and liberty for all" and "demands an end to poverty and racial injustice."
1967 - A fire at the L'Innovation department store in Brussels killed 322 people.
1968 - The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, sank in the Atlantic Ocean. (The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.)
1969 - The lunar module of Apollo 10, with Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan aboard, flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1972 - President Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union.
1985 - U.S. sailor Michael L. Walker was arrested aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz, two days after his father, John A. Walker Jr., was apprehended; both were later convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. (Michael Walker served 15 years in prison and was released in 2000.)
1990 - North Yemen and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen.
1992 - Johnny Carson hosted his final episode of "The Tonight Show" on NBC.
2003 - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution lifting the economic sanctions against Iraq and supporting the U.S.-led administration in Iraq.
2006 - The Department of Veterans Affairs said personal data, including Social Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans, was stolen from a VA employee after he took the information home without authorization.
2011 - At least 140 people were killed and hundreds more injured a a three-quarter-mile-wide EF5 tornado with winds in excess of 250 mph struck Joplin, Missouri. The tornado ranks among the deadliest in U.S. history, destroying nearly a third of the city and damaging more than 8,000 buildings, including water and sewage treatment plants.
2012 - Tokyo Skytree, at 2,080 feet tall, opened to the public as the tallest tower in the world.
2013 - Lois Lerner, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents had targeted conservative groups, swore to a House committee she did nothing wrong, then refused to answer further questions, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself.
2020 - "Full House" star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded guilty to paying half a million dollars into the University of Southern California as part of a college admissions bribery scheme. (Loughlin would spend two months behind bars; Giannulli began a five-month sentence in November 2020 and was released to home confinement in April 2021.)
Birthdays
21 - Paulina Chavez (actress)
24 - Camren Bicondova (actress)
24 - Talia Sagginario (rapper)
31 - Anna Baryshnikov (actress)
34 - Lexy Panterra (singer)
36 - Novak Djokovic (tennis player)
37 - Molly Ephraim (actress)
37 - Julian Edelman (football player)
41 - Apolo Anton Ohno (speed skater)
42 - Daniel Bryan (professional wrestler)
44 - Maggie Q (actress)
44 - Vivian Green (singer)
45 - Ginnifer Goodwin (actress)
45 - Katie Price (model)
49 - AJ. Langer (actor)
49 - Sean Gunn (actor)
50 - Donell Jones (singer)
51 - Alison Eastwood (actress)
51 - Anna Belknap (actress)
53 - Naomi Campbell (model)
54 - Michael Kelly (actor)
56 - Brooke Smith (actress)
57 - Johnny Gill (singer)
59 - Mark Christopher Lawrence (actor)
62 - Dana Williams (singer)
62 - Ann Cusack (actress)
64 - Morrissey (singer)
68 - Al Corley (actor)
80 - Tommy John (baseball player)
81 - Barbara Parkins (actress)
85 - Frank Converse (actor)
85 - Richard Benjamin (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 22
1962 - Roger Maris is walked five times in a game, four of them intentionally, which set a MLB record.
1968 - Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirates) hit three home runs, a single and a double.
1970 - The Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks were officially granted NHL franchises for the 1970-71 season.
1975 - The Kentucky Colonels defeat the Indiana Pacers in five games to win the ABA championship.
1975 - Joe Namath refused $4 million offer to play for Chicago in the World Football League.
1977 - Janet Guthrie set the fastest time of the second weekend of qualifying, becoming the first woman to earn a starting spot in the Indianapolis 500 since its inception in 1911.
1985 - Pete Rose passed Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108.
1990 - Andre Dawson sets a MLB record when he is walked intentionally five times in a game.
1991 - NFL owners agreed to add two new franchises in 1994 (Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars).
1994 - The new NBA franchise in Toronto unveils the "Raptors" nickname and logo.
2002 - Mark Prior became only the 14th Chicago Cubs player since 1920 to win his major league debut. The Cubs beat the Pirates 7-4.
2002 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 583rd home run. He tied Mark McGwire for fifth on the all-time list.
2003 - At the Colonial in Fort Worth, TX, Annika Sorenstam became the first woman to play on the PGA tour in 58 years. She ended the day at 1-over par.
2003 - High school basketball phenom LeBron James signed an endorsement deal with Nike worth $90 million.
2021 - 30-year-old Scottish light-welterweight boxer Josh Taylor becomes Britain's first undisputed boxing world champion in the four-belt era after defeating Jose Ramirez by unanimous decision.
2022 - Justin Thomas defeats Will Zalatoris in a three-hole playoff to win the PGA Championship.
1455 - The first battle in the 30-year War of Roses took place at St. Albans.
1761 - The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued in Philadelphia.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln received patent #6469 for his floating dry dock.
1927 - An earthquake near Xining, China, measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale, claimed more than 200,000 lives.
1939 - The foreign ministers of Germany and Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano, signed a "Pact of Steel" committing the two countries to a military alliance.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman's "Truman Doctrine" brought aid to Greece and Turkey to combat the spread of communism.
1960 - An earthquake of magnitude 9.5, the strongest ever measured, struck southern Chile, claiming some 1,655 lives.
1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11, en route from Chicago to Kansas City, Missouri, crashed after a bomb apparently brought on board by a passenger exploded, killing all 45 occupants of the Boeing 707.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking at the University of Michigan, outlined the goals of his "Great Society," saying that it "rests on abundance and liberty for all" and "demands an end to poverty and racial injustice."
1967 - A fire at the L'Innovation department store in Brussels killed 322 people.
1968 - The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, sank in the Atlantic Ocean. (The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.)
1969 - The lunar module of Apollo 10, with Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan aboard, flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1972 - President Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union.
1985 - U.S. sailor Michael L. Walker was arrested aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz, two days after his father, John A. Walker Jr., was apprehended; both were later convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. (Michael Walker served 15 years in prison and was released in 2000.)
1990 - North Yemen and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen.
1992 - Johnny Carson hosted his final episode of "The Tonight Show" on NBC.
2003 - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution lifting the economic sanctions against Iraq and supporting the U.S.-led administration in Iraq.
2006 - The Department of Veterans Affairs said personal data, including Social Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans, was stolen from a VA employee after he took the information home without authorization.
2011 - At least 140 people were killed and hundreds more injured a a three-quarter-mile-wide EF5 tornado with winds in excess of 250 mph struck Joplin, Missouri. The tornado ranks among the deadliest in U.S. history, destroying nearly a third of the city and damaging more than 8,000 buildings, including water and sewage treatment plants.
2012 - Tokyo Skytree, at 2,080 feet tall, opened to the public as the tallest tower in the world.
2013 - Lois Lerner, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents had targeted conservative groups, swore to a House committee she did nothing wrong, then refused to answer further questions, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself.
2020 - "Full House" star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded guilty to paying half a million dollars into the University of Southern California as part of a college admissions bribery scheme. (Loughlin would spend two months behind bars; Giannulli began a five-month sentence in November 2020 and was released to home confinement in April 2021.)
Birthdays
21 - Paulina Chavez (actress)
24 - Camren Bicondova (actress)
24 - Talia Sagginario (rapper)
31 - Anna Baryshnikov (actress)
34 - Lexy Panterra (singer)
36 - Novak Djokovic (tennis player)
37 - Molly Ephraim (actress)
37 - Julian Edelman (football player)
41 - Apolo Anton Ohno (speed skater)
42 - Daniel Bryan (professional wrestler)
44 - Maggie Q (actress)
44 - Vivian Green (singer)
45 - Ginnifer Goodwin (actress)
45 - Katie Price (model)
49 - AJ. Langer (actor)
49 - Sean Gunn (actor)
50 - Donell Jones (singer)
51 - Alison Eastwood (actress)
51 - Anna Belknap (actress)
53 - Naomi Campbell (model)
54 - Michael Kelly (actor)
56 - Brooke Smith (actress)
57 - Johnny Gill (singer)
59 - Mark Christopher Lawrence (actor)
62 - Dana Williams (singer)
62 - Ann Cusack (actress)
64 - Morrissey (singer)
68 - Al Corley (actor)
80 - Tommy John (baseball player)
81 - Barbara Parkins (actress)
85 - Frank Converse (actor)
85 - Richard Benjamin (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 22
1962 - Roger Maris is walked five times in a game, four of them intentionally, which set a MLB record.
1968 - Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirates) hit three home runs, a single and a double.
1970 - The Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks were officially granted NHL franchises for the 1970-71 season.
1975 - The Kentucky Colonels defeat the Indiana Pacers in five games to win the ABA championship.
1975 - Joe Namath refused $4 million offer to play for Chicago in the World Football League.
1977 - Janet Guthrie set the fastest time of the second weekend of qualifying, becoming the first woman to earn a starting spot in the Indianapolis 500 since its inception in 1911.
1985 - Pete Rose passed Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108.
1990 - Andre Dawson sets a MLB record when he is walked intentionally five times in a game.
1991 - NFL owners agreed to add two new franchises in 1994 (Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars).
1994 - The new NBA franchise in Toronto unveils the "Raptors" nickname and logo.
2002 - Mark Prior became only the 14th Chicago Cubs player since 1920 to win his major league debut. The Cubs beat the Pirates 7-4.
2002 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 583rd home run. He tied Mark McGwire for fifth on the all-time list.
2003 - At the Colonial in Fort Worth, TX, Annika Sorenstam became the first woman to play on the PGA tour in 58 years. She ended the day at 1-over par.
2003 - High school basketball phenom LeBron James signed an endorsement deal with Nike worth $90 million.
2021 - 30-year-old Scottish light-welterweight boxer Josh Taylor becomes Britain's first undisputed boxing world champion in the four-belt era after defeating Jose Ramirez by unanimous decision.
2022 - Justin Thomas defeats Will Zalatoris in a three-hole playoff to win the PGA Championship.
