On this day: October 22

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Train wreck at Gare Montparnasse

• 1740 – A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed.
• 1884 – The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, was adopted as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
• 1895 – At Gare Montparnasse station in Paris, an express train derailed (pictured) after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing the concourse before crashing through a wall and falling to the plaza below.
• 1962 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
• 2013 – The Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 made the Australian Capital Territory the nation's first jurisdiction to legalise same-sex marriage, although the High Court struck the act down two months later.

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