Editing October 22 (section)

===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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