📜 This Day in History

October 22

• 2137 BCA solar eclipse occurred over China, one of the earliest recorded eclipses in history.
• 1724J. S. Bach led the first performance of the chorale cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul), based on the communion hymn of the same name, in Leipzig.
• 1895At Gare Montparnasse in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop and crashed through the station wall.
• 1940After evading Vichy French and Francoist Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile.
• 1987John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered.
• 2015A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack.

Born on this day

• 1811Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1886)
• 1844Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager (died 1923)
• 1870Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)
• 1919Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)