Reuters historical calendar - October 22

London, Oct 21 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 22 since 1900: 1906 - Paul Cezanne, French Post-Impressionist painter, died.

Among his best known works are ''Card Players'' and ''Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine Trees''.

1910 - Dr Hawley Crippen was sentenced to death in London for the murder of his wife in a case believed to be first in which wireless telegraphy played a part in crime detection. He was apprehended on a ship near Quebec.

1962 - U S President John Kennedy announced that a Soviet missile base was being built in Cuba and ordered a naval blockade of ships carrying equipment there.

1962 - Nelson Mandela pleaded not guilty at the start of his treason trial in South Africa.

1964 - French writer Jean-Paul Sartre rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature, saying it would reduce the impact of his writing.

1975 - The first photographs transmitted from the surface of another planet were sent to Earth from Venus by Soviet probe Venera 9.

1987 - One volume of a rare first edition of a Gutenberg bible sold for a record 5.39 million dollars at Christie's in New York.

1999 - Former guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao returned to East Timor after years in an Indonesian jail.

2002 - Geraldine Nagy-Appony, Albania's former queen, died aged 87. She was married in 1938 to King Zog, a Muslim chieftain who proclaimed himself monarch in 1928. They left the country with their infant son Leka in April 1939, when fascist Italy invaded.

2004 - Russia's Duma ratified the Kyoto Protocol, clearing the way for the long-delayed climate change pact to come into force worldwide.

**2005 - A Boeing aircraft operated by Nigerian private carrier Bellview crashed in stormy weather shortly after take-off from Lagos, killing all 117 people on board.

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