On this day: October 22

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October 22

Montparnasse derailment​

• 906 – Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, an Abbasid military officer of Turkic origin, led a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking at least 4,000 captives.
• 1895 – At Gare Montparnasse in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop and crashed through the station wall (pictured).
• 1936 – Dod Orsborne, captain of the fishing trawler Girl Pat, was convicted of its theft and imprisoned, having caused a media sensation when it went missing.
• 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.

• Lev Yashin (b. 1929)
• Deepak Chopra (b. 1946)
• Javier Milei (b. 1970)
• Evdokia Reshetnik (d. 1996)

More anniversaries:

• October 21
• October 22
• October 23

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