Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 22

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 * 906 – Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, an Abbasid military officer of Turkic origin, led a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking at least 4,000 captives.
 * 1707 – In one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of the British Isles, at least 1,400 sailors on four Royal Navy ships were lost in stormy weather off the Isles of Scilly.
 * 1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey.
 * 1740 – A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed.
 * 1797 – Dropping from a hydrogen balloon at a height of approximately 3000 ft, André-Jacques Garnerin carried out the first descent using a frameless parachute.
 * 1895 – 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.
 * 1924 – The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.
 * 1936 – Dod Orsborne, captain of the Girl Pat, was convicted of its theft and imprisoned, having caused a media sensation when it went missing.
 * 1940 – After evading French and Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot (pictured) arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile.
 * 1966 – 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.
 * 1987 – John Adams' (pictured) opera Nixon in China premiered.
 * Born/died: | Qian Weijun |b|955| Johann Reinhold Forster |b|1729| Charles Scott |d|1813|   Sahle Selassie |d|1847| Charles Kingston |b|1850| César Luis Menotti |b|1938| Deepak Chopra |b|1946| Hannah Mitchell |d|1956| Oona King |b|1967| James K. Baxter |d|1972 Betty Binns Fletcher |d|2012