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 Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea was published in …...	2 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Allen Drury was born in Houston, Texas...	3 Legendary actor Peter O’Toole returned to the stage after a …...	4 American author Richard Wright was born in Roxie, Mississippi...	5 Scottish poet Robert Fergusson was born Edinburgh...	6 The Great Fire of London finally burned out, resulting in …...	7 Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot four times in a drive-by …...
8 Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn was born in Middlesex, England...	9 American poet Sonia Sanchez was born in Birmingham, Alabama...	10 Author and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft died of septicemia in London, …...	11 Thousands of Americans died in the World Trade Center attacks, …... English poet and novelist D...	12 Poet Elizabeth Barrett eloped with poet Robert Browning because her …...	13 Roald Dahl was born in Wales...	14 Francis Scott Key, a lawyer, witnessed the British attack on …...
15 Mystery novelist Agatha Christie was born in Devon, England...	16 James Alan McPherson, fiction writer and memoirist, was born in …...	17 The first selection of Oprah’s Book Club, Jacquelyn Mitchard’s The …...	18 British author Aldous Huxley, best known as the writer of …...	19 Hermione Granger turns 39 today! Hermione is beloved by fans …...	20 George R...	21 “King of Horror” Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine...
22 Author and playwright Ben Jonson was indicted on the charge …...	23 Chilean poet Pablo Neruda died in the hospital after suffering …...	24 Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in St...	25 William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi...	26 Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St...	27 Rachel Carson, a marine biologist, published her findings on the …... George Aiken’s play based on Harriett Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s …...	28 Italian author Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was born in …...
29 Lawrence Olivier’s Hamlet, which he directed and played the titular …...	30 Author Truman Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana...

This Day in History

September, 2025