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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_22" title="October 22">October 22</a></b>:
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1633" title="1633">1633</a> – At the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Liaoluo_Bay" title="Battle of Liaoluo Bay">Battle of Liaoluo Bay</a></b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_dynasty" title="Ming dynasty">Ming Chinese</a> naval forces defeated a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company" title="Dutch East India Company">Dutch East India Company</a> fleet in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Strait" title="Taiwan Strait">Taiwan Strait</a>, the largest naval encounter between Chinese and European forces before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War" title="First Opium War">First Opium War</a> more than two hundred years later.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877" title="1877">1877</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blantyre_mining_disaster" title="Blantyre mining disaster">Scotland's worst mining accident</a></b> occurred when an explosion at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">colliery</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blantyre,_South_Lanarkshire" title="Blantyre, South Lanarkshire">Blantyre, South Lanarkshire</a>, killed 207 miners.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907" title="1907">1907</a> – A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_run" title="Bank run">bank run</a> forced New York's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_Trust_Company" title="Knickerbocker Trust Company">Knickerbocker Trust Company</a> to suspend operations, triggering the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907" title="Panic of 1907">Panic of 1907</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936" title="1936">1936</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy_cutlasses" title="Royal Navy cutlasses">Royal Navy cutlass</a></b> was withdrawn from combat service.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015" title="2015">2015</a> – A sword-wielding man <b><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollh%C3%A4ttan_school_attack" title="Trollhättan school attack">attacked students and teachers</a></b> at a high school in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollh%C3%A4ttan" title="Trollhättan">Trollhättan</a>, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Samuel_Rafinesque" title="Constantine Samuel Rafinesque">Constantine Samuel Rafinesque</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1783); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Strachan-Davidson" title="James Strachan-Davidson">James Strachan-Davidson</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1843); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Coulthard" title="George Coulthard">George Coulthard</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1883); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Kawelohea_McKinzie" title="Edith Kawelohea McKinzie">Edith Kawelohea McKinzie</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1925)</p>
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