^B{^#!16!22 October^N! Feast day of St Philip of Heraclea and his Companions, St Mellon or Mallonus, St Abercius, Saints Nunilo and Alodia, and St Donatus of Fiesole.
^B{1797^B} The first parachute jump was made by AndrΘ-Jacques Garnerin from a balloon above the Parc Monceau, Paris. ^B{1878^B} The first floodlit rugby match took place, Broughton v Swinton, at Broughton, Lancs. ^B{1883^B} New York's Metropolitan Opera House opened. ^B{1909^B} French aviator Elise Deroche became the first woman to make a solo flight. ^B{1910^B} Dr Hawley Crippen was found guilty of poisoning his wife and was sentenced to be hanged on 23 October 1910. ^B{1935^B} Haiti was struck by a hurricane, causing over 2,000 deaths. ^B{1962^B} US President Kennedy announced that Soviet missile bases had been installed in Cuba. ^B{1987^B} The first volume of the Gutenberg Bible was sold at auction in New York for $5.39m/ú3.26m - a record price for a printed book.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, ^B{1811^B}; Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, ^B{1844^B}; Doris Lessing, English novelist, ^B{1919^B}; Robert Rauschenberg, US artist, ^B{1925^B}; Derek Jacobi, English actor, ^B{1938^B}; Catherine Deneuve, French film actress, ^B{1943^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Charles Martel, leader of the Franks, 741^B}; Thomas Sheraton, English furniture maker, ^B{1806^B}; Paul CΘzanne, French painter, ^B{1906^B}; Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist, ^B{1973^B}; Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian, ^B{1975^B}.
