Editing October 22 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[451]] &ndash; The [[Chalcedonian Creed]], regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted by the [[Council of Chalcedon]], an ecumenical council.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Richard Price|author2=Michael Gaddis|title=The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6IUaOOT1G3UC&pg=RA1-PA183|year=2005|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-039-7|pages=183}}</ref>
* [[794]] &ndash; Japanese [[Emperor Kanmu]] relocates his empire's capital to [[Heian-kyō]] (now Kyoto).<ref>{{cite book|author=Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg|title=Historic Cities of Asia: An Introduction to Asian Cities from Antiquity to Pre-modern Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWPaAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=M.A.J. Beg|isbn=978-967-9957-03-7|page=43}}</ref>
* [[906]] &ndash; Abbasid general [[Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh]] leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking 4,000–5,000 captives.{{sfn|Rosenthal|1985|pp=172, 180}}
*[[1383]] &ndash; The male line of the [[Portuguese House of Burgundy]] becomes extinct with the death of King [[Ferdinand I of Portugal|Fernando]], leaving only his daughter Beatrice. Rival claimants begin a period of [[1383–85 Crisis|civil war]] and disorder.<ref>{{cite book|author=E. Michael Gerli|title=Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euVJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA332|date=4 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-77162-0|pages=332}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1721]] &ndash; The [[Russian Empire]] is proclaimed by Tsar [[Peter the Great|Peter I]] after the [[Swedish Empire|Swedish]] defeat in the [[Great Northern War]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Madariaga |first1=Isabel De |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=omjXAwAAQBAJ |title=Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Collected Essays by Isabel de Madariaga |date=17 June 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-88190-2 |pages=15–16 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Solovyov |first=Yevgeny |title=Петр I в Отечественной Историографии: Конца XVIII – Начала XX ВВ |date=2006 |degree=Doctor of Historical Sciences |url=http://www.dissercat.com/content/petr-i-v-otechestvennoi-istoriografii-kontsa-xviii-nachala-xx-vv |place=Moscow |language=ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707094918/http://www.dissercat.com/content/petr-i-v-otechestvennoi-istoriografii-kontsa-xviii-nachala-xx-vv |archive-date=7 July 2018 |trans-title=Peter I in Russian historiography of the late 18th – early 20th centuries |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]] leads the first performance of ''[[Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180|Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele]]'' (Adorn yourself, O dear soul) in [[Leipzig]] on the 20th Sunday after [[Trinity Sunday|Trinity]], based on [[Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele|the communion hymn of the same name]].<ref>{{cite web
  | url = http://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000218?lang=en
  | title = Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 180; BC A 149
  | website = [[Bach Digital]]
  | date = 2024
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  }}</ref>
*[[1730]] &ndash; Construction of the [[Ladoga Canal]] is completed in Russia.<ref name="nezhikhovsky">Нежиховский Р.А. Река Нева. 3-е изд. Leningrad: Гидрометеоиздат, 1973 (in Russian). p. 158.</ref>
*[[1739]] &ndash; The [[War of Jenkins' Ear]] begins with the first attack on [[La Guaira]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Beyer |first=Greg |date=March 15, 2024 |title=What Was the War of Jenkins' Ear? |url=https://www.thecollector.com/what-was-war-jenkins-ear/ |access-date=February 28, 2025 |website=The Collector}}</ref>
*[[1746]] &ndash; The College of New Jersey (later renamed [[Princeton University]]) receives its charter.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Oberdorfer |first=Don |author-link=Don Oberdorfer |url=https://archive.org/details/princetonunivers0000ober/mode/2up |title=Princeton University: The First 250 Years |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-691-01122-6 |edition=1st |location=Princeton |page=12}}</ref>
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: American defenders of [[Fort Mercer]] on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the [[Battle of Red Bank]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 July 2024 |title=Red Bank Discovery: Hessian burial site offers opportunity for new historic interpretation |url=https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/red-bank-discovery#:~:text=On%20October%2022%2C%201777%2C%20approximately,from%20several%20American%20naval%20vessels. |access-date=28 February 2025 |website=American Battlefield Trust}}</ref>
*[[1790]] &ndash; [[Northwest Indian War]]: Native American forces defeat the United States, ending the [[Harmar Campaign]].<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/074/74-1/CMH_Pub_74-1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518095920/http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/074/74-1/CMH_Pub_74-1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 18, 2015 |title=Defending A New Nation 1783–1811 |last=Maass |first=John R  |publisher=United States Army Center of Military History |year=2013 |page=22}}</ref>
*[[1797]] &ndash; [[André-Jacques Garnerin]] makes the first recorded [[parachute]] jump, from {{convert|1000|m}} above Paris.<ref name="soden">{{cite book |last=Soden |first=Garrett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4K0rfx_E_kC&pg=PA18 |title=Defying Gravity: Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-393-32656-7 |pages=21–22 |access-date=24 February 2009}}</ref>
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Sam Houston]] is inaugurated as the first President of the [[Republic of Texas]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Haley |first=James L. |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780806136448 |title=Sam Houston |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8061-3644-8 |pages=163–165}}</ref>
*[[1844]] &ndash; The Millerites (followers of [[Baptist]] preacher [[William Miller (preacher)|William Miller]]) anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the [[Second Advent of Christ]]. The following day becomes known as the [[Great Disappointment]].<ref name="amazingdiscoveries.org">{{cite web |title=The Great Disappointment and the Birth of Adventism |url=http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Great-Disappointment_Advent_Miller |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228150319/https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Great-Disappointment_Advent_Miller |archive-date=28 February 2021 |access-date=27 December 2016}}</ref>
*[[1859]] &ndash; Spain declares [[Hispano-Moroccan War (1859–60)|war]] on [[Morocco]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fernández-Rivero |first=Juan-Antonio |url=http://eprints.rclis.org/16861/1/Enrique%20Fazio%20en%20la%20Guerra%20Africa.pdf |title=Ceuta y la Guerra de África de 1859–1860 |publisher=Instituto de Estudios Ceutíes |year=2011 |isbn=978-84-92627-30-1 |location=Ceuta |pages=470–471 |chapter=La fotografía militar en la guerra de África: Enrique Facio}}</ref>
*[[1866]] &ndash; A plebiscite ratifies the annexation of [[Veneto]] and [[Mantua]] to Italy, which had occurred three days before on October 19.<ref>{{cite journal |date=1968 |title=Operazioni di voto per il plebiscito nella prima sezione elettorale di Venezia |url=http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/dga/uploads/documents/Pubblicazioni_LXII_II.pdf |url-status=live |location=Roma |publisher=Ministero dell'Interno |volume=2 |pages=138–140 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006004436/http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/dga/uploads/documents/Pubblicazioni_LXII_II.pdf |archive-date=6 October 2016 |periodical=Gli Archivi dei Regi Commissari Nelle Province del Veneto e di Mantova}}<!-- auto-translated from Italian by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; The [[Blantyre mining disaster]] in Scotland kills 207 miners.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blantyre Mining Disaster |url=http://nationalminingmuseum.com/news/blantyre-mining-disaster/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416044603/http://nationalminingmuseum.com/news/blantyre-mining-disaster/ |archive-date=16 April 2017 |access-date=27 February 2025 |website=National Mining Museum Scotland}}</ref>
*[[1879]] &ndash; Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric [[incandescent light bulb]] (lasting 13{{frac|1|2}} hours before burning out).<ref>{{cite book |last=Israel |first=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/edisonlifeofinve0000isra |title=Edison: a Life of Invention |publisher=Wiley |year=1998 |page=[https://archive.org/details/edisonlifeofinve0000isra/page/186 186] |url-access=registration}}</ref>
*[[1883]] &ndash; The [[Metropolitan Opera House (39th Street)|Metropolitan Opera House]] in New York City opens with a performance of [[Gounod]]'s ''Faust''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Metropolitan Opera {{!}} History, Performance, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Metropolitan-Opera-Association |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; The [[International Meridian Conference]] designates the [[Royal Observatory, Greenwich]] as the world's prime meridian.<ref>{{cite book |last=Howse |first=Derek |url=https://archive.org/details/greenwichtimelon0000hows |title=Greenwich Time and the Longitude |date=1997 |publisher=Phillip Wilson |isbn=0-85667-468-0 |page=12 |url-access=registration}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; In Paris an express train [[Montparnasse derailment|derails]] after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost {{convert|30|m|ft|-1}} of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling {{convert|10|m}} to the road below.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Richou |first=G. |date=1895-11-09 |title=L'Accident de la Gare Montparnasse |url=http://cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?4KY28.45/373/100/556/5/436 |access-date=2019-01-10 |magazine=[[La Nature]] |pages=369–370 |language=fr |issue=1171 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1907]] &ndash; A run on the stock of the [[Knickerbocker Trust Company]] sets events in motion that will spark the [[Panic of 1907]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 4, 2015 |title=The Panic of 1907 |url=https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/panic-of-1907 |access-date=23 February 2025 |website=Federal Reserve History}}</ref>
*[[1910]] &ndash; [[Hawley Harvey Crippen]] (the first felon to be arrested with the help of [[radio]]) is convicted of poisoning his wife.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Foran |first1=David R. |last2=Wills |first2=Beth E. |last3=Kiley |first3=Brianne M. |last4=Jackson |first4=Carrie B. |last5=Trestrail III |first5=John H. |date=2010 |title=The Conviction of Dr. Crippen: New Forensic Findings in a Century-Old Murder |url=http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2011/01/3cda8882-265b-4282-9eba-a13d880f09a2.pdf |journal=Journal of Forensic Sciences |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=233–240 |doi=10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01532.x|pmid=20735704 }}</ref>
*[[1923]] &ndash; The royalist [[Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt]] fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the [[Second Hellenic Republic]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stavridis |first=Stavros |date=October 5, 2024 |title=The October Coup of 1923, Elections, and King George |url=https://www.thenationalherald.com/the-october-coup-of-1923-elections-and-king-george/ |access-date=23 February 2025 |work=The National Herald}}</ref>
*[[1934]] &ndash; In [[East Liverpool, Ohio]], FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber [[Pretty Boy Floyd]].<ref name=":1" />
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[Dod Orsborne]], captain of the ''[[Girl Pat]]'' is convicted of its theft and imprisoned, having caused a media sensation when it went missing.<ref>{{cite news|title= Both Orsbornes Sent to Gaol|newspaper= The Manchester Guardian|date= 23 October 1936|page= 11|id= {{ProQuest|484065518}}}} {{subscription required}}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: French resistance member [[Guy Môquet]] and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.<ref name=":3" />
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: In the second firestorm raid on Germany, the British Royal Air Force [[Bombing of Kassel in World War II|conducts an air raid]] on the town of [[Kassel]], killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harding |first=Luke |date=22 October 2003 |title=Germany's forgotten victims |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/oct/22/worlddispatch.germany |access-date=23 February 2025 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern Germany are forced to [[Operation Osoaviakhim|relocate to the Soviet Union]], along with their families and equipment.<ref name="russiaspaceweb.com">{{cite web |title=Operation 'Osoaviakhim' |url=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/a4_team_moscow.html |access-date=May 4, 2018 |publisher=Russian space historian Anatoly Zak}}</ref><ref name="Uhl">{{cite book |last=Uhl |first=Matthias |author-link= |url=http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/inostr-yazyki/nemets/Uhl_Stalins_V-2_2001.pdf |title=Stalins V-2. Der Technologietransfer der deutschen Fernlenkwaffentechnik in die UdSSR und der Aufbau der sowjetischen Raketenindustrie 1945 bis 1959 |date=2001 |publisher=Bernard & Graefe Verlag |isbn=978-3-7637-6214-9 |location= |page= |language=German |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503063042/http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/inostr-yazyki/nemets/Uhl_Stalins_V-2_2001.pdf |archive-date=3 May 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.<ref name="upi">{{cite news |year=1962 |title=1962 Year In Review: Cuban Missile Crisis |url=http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1962/Cuban-Missile-Crisis/12295509437657-6/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502193203/http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1962/Cuban-Missile-Crisis/12295509437657-6/ |archive-date=May 2, 2010 |access-date=April 22, 2010 |publisher=United Press International, Inc.}}</ref>
*[[1963]] &ndash; A [[BAC One-Eleven]] prototype airliner [[1963 BAC One-Eleven test crash|crashes in UK with the loss of all on board]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 October 2013 |title=Chicklade memorial to crew killed in test flight crash |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-24608183 |access-date=22 February 2025 |work=BBC}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] is awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]], though he does not accept the prize.<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 October 2010 |title=From the archive, 23 October 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel Prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/25/sartre-turns-down-nobel-1964 |access-date=22 February 2025 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>
*[[1975]] &ndash; The Soviet uncrewed space mission [[Venera 9]] lands on Venus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Venera 9 Descent Craft |url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1975-050D |access-date=20 February 2025 |website=NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive}}</ref>
*[[1981]] &ndash; The US [[Federal Labor Relations Authority]] votes to decertify the [[Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968)|Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization]] (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cadambi |first=Anjali |date=22 November 2010 |title=American air-traffic controllers strike for benefits and pay, 1981 |url=https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/american-air-traffic-controllers-strike-benefits-and-pay-1981 |access-date=20 February 2025 |website=Global Nonviolent Action Database}}</ref>
*[[1983]] &ndash; Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in [[Marion, Illinois]]. The incident inspires the [[Supermax]] model of prisons.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Peters |first=Justin |date=23 October 2013 |title=How a 1983 Murder Created America's Terrible Supermax-Prison Culture |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/10/marion-prison-lockdown-thomas-silverstein-how-a-1983-murder-created-america-s-terrible-supermax-prison-culture.html |access-date=16 February 2025 |work=Slate}}</ref>
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams']] opera ''[[Nixon in China]]'' premiered at the [[Houston Grand Opera]].<ref>{{cite news| last = Holmes| first = Ann| date = October 18, 1987| title = ''Nixon in China''/HGO presents world premiere of unusual opera| page = Zest 15 <!-- Yes, Zest. Please check the source if you don't believe me. -->| newspaper = [[Houston Chronicle]]| url = https://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1987_496934| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020162449/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1987_496934| archive-date= 2012-10-20| access-date = March 28, 2011}}</ref>
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']] launches on [[STS-52]] to deploy the [[LAGEOS]]-2 satellite and microgravity experiments.<ref name="STS52Archive">{{cite web |last1=Ryba |first1=Jeanne |date=March 31, 2010 |title=STS-52 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-52.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422171154/https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-52.html |archive-date=April 22, 2021 |access-date=April 22, 2021 |work=Space Shuttle – Mission Archives |publisher=NASA}}</ref>
*[[1997]] &ndash; Danish fugitive [[Steen Christensen]] kills two police officers, Chief Constable Eero Holsti and Senior Constable Antero Palo, in [[Ullanlinna]], [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]] during his prison escape.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.city.fi/ilmiot/steen+christensen+pyovelin+puheenvuoro/4812 | title = Steen Christensen: Pyövelin puheenvuoro | last1 = Larros | first1 = Heini | last2 = Suhonen | first2 = Pete | date = November 27, 1998 | work = City-lehti | access-date = September 24, 2021 | language = fi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/a/2016061821756836 | title = Poliisisurmat järkyttivät Suomea 1997 – kaksi poliisia ammuttiin kadulle | last = Palmén | first = Tiia | date = June 19, 2016 | work = [[Iltalehti]] | access-date = September 24, 2021 | language = fi}}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Maurice Papon]], an official in the [[Vichy France|Vichy]] government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Douglas |date=19 February 2007 |title=Obituary of Maurice Papon |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/19/guardianobituaries.france?INTCMP=SRCH |access-date=11 September 2011 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London}}</ref>
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[Tropical Storm Alpha (2005)|Tropical Storm Alpha]] forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the [[2005 Atlantic hurricane season]] the most active Atlantic hurricane season until surpassed by the [[2020 Atlantic hurricane season|2020 season]].<ref name="public2">{{Cite web |author=Mainelli/Knabb |date=2005-10-22 |title=Tropical Storm Alpha Public Advisory #2 |url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/pub/al252005.public.002.shtml? |access-date=2008-01-25 |publisher=National Hurricane Center}}</ref>
*  2005   &ndash; [[Bellview Airlines Flight 210]] crashes in Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 October 2005 |title=All killed in Nigeria plane crash |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4368516.stm |access-date=16 February 2025 |work=BBC}}</ref>
*[[2006]] &ndash; A [[Panama Canal expansion project|Panama Canal expansion]] proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a [[2006 Panama Canal expansion referendum|national referendum]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lacey |first=Mark |date=23 October 2006 |title=Panamanians Vote Overwhelmingly to Expand Canal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/world/americas/23panama.html |access-date=16 February 2025 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
*[[2007]] &ndash; A [[raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base]] is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos, with all except one dying in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and ten damaged.<ref>{{cite news |last=Associated Press |date=21 October 2007 |title=13 troops, 20 rebels killed during battle at Sri Lankan air base |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/22/asia/AS-GEN-Sri-Lanka-Civil-War.php |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024104805/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/22/asia/AS-GEN-Sri-Lanka-Civil-War.php |archivedate=24 October 2007 |accessdate=18 December 2013 |work=International Herald Tribune}}</ref>
*[[2008]] &ndash; India launches its first uncrewed [[lunar probe]] mission [[Chandrayaan-1]].<ref>{{cite news |date=22 October 2008 |title=PSLV-C11 Successfully Launches Chandrayaan-1 |url=http://www.isro.gov.in/pressrelease/scripts/pressreleasein.aspx?Oct22_2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107014114/http://isro.gov.in/pressrelease/scripts/pressreleasein.aspx?Oct22_2008 |archive-date=7 January 2012 |access-date=11 March 2012 |publisher=ISRO}}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; Cyclist [[Lance Armstrong]] is formally stripped of his seven [[Tour de France]] titles after being charged for [[Doping in sport|doping]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Macur|first=Juliet|date=2012-10-22|title=Lance Armstrong Is Stripped of His 7 Tour de France Titles|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/sports/cycling/armstrong-stripped-of-his-7-tour-de-france-titles.html|access-date=2021-10-22|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; The [[Australian Capital Territory]] becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize [[same-sex marriage]] with the [[Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013]].<ref name="Hansard22Oct">{{cite Hansard|title=Marriage Equality Bill 2013|jurisdiction=Australian Capital Territory|house=Legislative Assembly|date=22 October 2013|url=https://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/8th-assembly/2013/PDF/20131022.pdf|hansard=Weekly Hansard|pages=3554-3582|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305043559/https://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/8th-assembly/2013/PDF/20131022.pdf|archive-date=5 March 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2014]] &ndash; Michael Zehaf-Bibeau [[2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa|attacks]] the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.<ref>{{cite news |last=Duffy |first=Andrew |title=UPDATE: Day of chaos in the capital leaves soldier and terrorist dead |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/soldier-shot-at-war-memorial-in-ottawa |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190206140009/https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/soldier-shot-at-war-memorial-in-ottawa |archive-date=2019-02-06 |access-date=2019-01-27 |work=Ottawa Citizen}}</ref><ref name="macleans-20141230">{{cite news |last=Smyth |first=Julie |date=30 December 2014 |title=Bearing witness: New voices recall the Ottawa shooting |url=http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/bearing-witness-new-voices-recall-the-ottawa-shooting/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231003038/http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/bearing-witness-new-voices-recall-the-ottawa-shooting/ |archive-date=31 December 2014 |access-date=31 December 2014 |work=Macleans}}</ref>
*[[2019]] &ndash; [[Same-sex marriage]] is legalised, and [[abortion]] is decriminalised in [[Northern Ireland]] as a result of the [[Northern Ireland Assembly]] not being restored.<ref>{{cite web |title='What a day to be gay in Northern Ireland': marriage equality becomes law at last |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/what-a-day-to-be-gay-in-northern-ireland-joy-for-couples-at-historic-change |website=The Guardian |access-date=22 October 2020 |language=en |date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
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