Unix Timestamp: 1022025600
Wednesday, May 22. 2002, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large water ice deposits on the planet Mars.

Recent (discovery of) celebrity deaths: Police find the remains of missing intern Chandra Levy in a park in Washington, DC.

A barge collides with the Interstate 40 bridge across the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, killing 14.

China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates near the Penghu Islands at Taiwan Strait, killing all 225 people on board.

Estonia hosts the first Eurovision Song Contest in a former Soviet republic.

16th Street Baptist Church bombing: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of 4 girls.