This Day in History

Explore significant literary events, births, and milestones that occurred throughout history on each day of the month.

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					1 Novelist Herman Melville was born in New York City...	2 Mary Anne Evans began writing her novel Middlemarch under the …...
3 Charles Dickens published his last installment of Great Expectations...	4 Poet Robert Hayden was born in Detroit, Michigan...	5 French writer Guy de Maupassant was born in the Normandy …...	6 English playwright, poet, and critic Ben Jonson died in in …...	7 According to rumor, Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth was performed for King …...	8 22-year-old John Keats returned home from a two month walking …...	9 Henry David Thoreau published his transcendentalist work on self-reliance, Walden, …...
10 American author Suzanne Collins, best known for her young adult …...	11 Author Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York...	12 Author Walter Dean Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia...	13 Author and antiracism advocate Ibram X... Author and historian H...	14 American playwright Clifford Odets of Philadelphia passed away in LA …...	15 Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland...	16 Charles Bukowski, born Heinreich Karl Bukowski, was born in the …...
17 George Orwell published his totalitarian novella, Animal Farm, in Great …...	18 Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel, Lolita, was published in America, two …...	19 Five citizens of Salem were put to death for witchcraft …...	20 Horror writer H...	21 A...	22 Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois...	23 Author Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas...
24	25 Laura Ingalls, author of the beloved Little House on the …...	26 French poet Jules Romains was born in the Haute-Loire...	27 American author Edgar Rice Burroughs published his first book in …...	28 Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr...	29 The Grimm Brothers began their ambitious lifelong task of creating …...	30 British author Mary Shelley was born in London, England...
31 The New Yorker dedicated an entire issue to telling the …...

This Day in History

August, 2026