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Picture of children in the Ward by William James (1908)

Lloyd Hime's photograph of McDermot's store, Fort Garry, Manitoba, 1858

"The Bounce, Montreal Snowshoe Club" in-studio by Notman, 1886

Possibly the first daguerreotype produced in Canada, Niagara Falls by Hugh Lee Pattinson, 1840

Dr William Bland c. 1845, by George Barron Goodman – the oldest surviving photograph taken in Australia.

October 22, 1910 — Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.

October 22, 1907 — A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.

October 22, 1895 — In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.

Abandoned boy holding a stuffed animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London, 1945.

October 22, 1866 — A plebiscite ratifies the annexation of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, which had occurred three days before on October 19.

October 22, 1836 — Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

October 22, 1790 — Northwest Indian War: Native American forces defeat the United States, ending the Harmar Campaign.

Nikita Khrushchev appreciating American corn during a visit to the farm of Roswell Garst in Coon Rapids, USA, September 1959

October 22, 1784 — Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

October 22, 1739 — The War of Jenkins' Ear begins with the first attack on La Guaira.

October 22, 1730 — Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.

October 22, 1633 — The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.

Daguerrotype portrait of Revolutionary War veteran Baltus Stone. He was born in 1747 and was photographed here at around the age of 99. Photographed in 1846. Stone is buried at the Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.

October 22, 1962 -- 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.

October 22, 1947 -- The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.