May 22
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Events
- 1967 - The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
Births
- 1808 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
- 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930)
- 1907 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (d. 1983)
- 1914 - Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1930 - John Barth, American writer
- 1930 - Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978)
