On this day — May 22

following six months of political turmoil.

capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.

Southeast London

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).

Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.

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.

Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League).

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.

over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.