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 Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, the Moor of Venice, first premiered on …...
2 Dutch writer Charles Edgar du Perron, known to his readers …...	3 French author and playwright Olympe de Gouges was guillotined during …...	4 Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, an extensive treatise on …...	5 : American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born in Johnstown, …...	6 American author Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio...	7 Absurdist writer Albert Camus was born in French Algeria...	8 Benjamin Franklin founded The Library Company of Philadelphia, the first …...
9 Modernist poet Dylan Thomas died due to a severe case …...	10 American author William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in …...	11 : Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, Russia...	12	13 Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is published as a stand-alone …...	14 Robert Louis Stevenson’s story Treasure Island was published as a …...	15 Four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered in …...
16 Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize winner José Saramago was born …...	17 French author Régis Debray was sentenced to 30 years in …...	18 Mark Twain published his short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog …...	19 American expat Sylvia Beach established Shakespeare & Company, a bookstore …...	20 Swedish teacher and author Selma Lagerlöf was born in Värmland, …...	21 French humorist, historian, and writer François-Marie Arouet, better known by …...	22 Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name as George …...
23 John Milton published Areopagitica, a historic pamphlet decrying censorship...	24 John Steinbeck’s The Pearl was published...	25 Japanese author Kimitake Hiraoka committed suicide by the ritual known …...	26 Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published in America …...	27 American author James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee...	28 Today is the believed anniversary of William Shakespeare and his …...	29 British author Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland...
30 Today is a big birthday for authors! Jonathan Swift, the …...