^B{^#!16!11 October^N! Feast day of St Mary Soledad, Saints Andronicus, Tarachus, and Probus, St Agilbert, St Alexander Sauli, St Nectarius of Constantinople, St Bruno the Great of Cologne, St Gummarus or Gomaire, and St Canice or Kenneth.
^B{1521^B} Pope Leo X conferred the title of 'Defender of the Faith' (Fidei Difensor) on Henry VIII for his book supporting Catholic principles. ^B{1689^B} Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, assumed control of the government. ^B{1899^B} The Anglo-Boer War began. ^B{1923^B} Rampant inflation in Germany caused the mark to drop to an exchange rate of 10,000,000,000 to the pound. ^B{1968^B} The US spacecraft ^I{Apollo 7^I} was launched from Cape Kennedy, with a crew of three. ^B{1980^B} The Soviet ^I{Salyut 6^I} returned to earth; its cosmonauts had been in space for a record ^B{185 days. ^B{1982^B} The ^I{Mary Rose^I}, which had been the pride of Henry VIII's fleet until it sank in the Solent in 1545, was raised.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Arthur Phillip, English admiral, ^B{1738^B}; George Williams, founder of the YMCA, ^B{1821^B}; Franτois Mauriac, French author, ^B{1885^B}; Richard Burton, Welsh actor, ^B{1925^B}; Bobby Charlton, English footballer, ^B{1937^B}; Dawn French, English actress and comedienne, ^B{1957^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer, ^B{1531^B}; Meriwether Lewis, US explorer, ^B{1809^B}; James Joule, English physicist, ^B{1889^B}; Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer, ^B{1896^B}; 'Chico' Marx, US comedian, ^B{1961^B}; Jean Cocteau, French poet, dramatist, and film director, ^B{1963^B}; Jess Thomas, US operatic tenor, ^B{1993^B}.
