22 October 1231

A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack.

In Ottawa, Canada, the downtown core was placed on lockdown after a series of shootings at Parliament Hill.

Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashed in Ogun State, Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.

TAN-SAHSA Flight 414 crashed in approach to Toncontín International Airport killing 131 out of 146 people onboard.

John Adams' (pictured) opera Nixon in China premiered.

With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.

The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.

Workers at the Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina, began a labor strike against the American Tobacco Company that lasted more than five months.

After evading Vichy French and Francoist Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile.

The Royal Navy cutlass was withdrawn from combat service.

The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.

A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, triggering the Panic of 1907 (pictured).

At Gare Montparnasse in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop and crashed through the station wall, with the locomotive landing on the street below.

A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed.

George II and Caroline of Ansbach (pictured) were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey.

J. S. Bach led the first performance of the chorale cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul), based on the communion hymn of the same name, in Leipzig.

The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.

Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping.

India launches its first uncrewed lunar probe mission Chandrayaan-1.

A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a national referendum.

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 season.

Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashes in Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.

Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-52 to deploy the LAGEOS-2 satellite and microgravity experiments.