Historical timeline for October 22

Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered at the Houston Grand Opera.

Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.

The US Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.

The Soviet uncrewed space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.

Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize.

A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.

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.

Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern Germany are forced to relocate to the Soviet Union, along with their families and equipment.