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 The first Sherlock Holmes story appeared in print...	2 Isaac Asimov published I, Robot, his collection of science fiction …...	3 Mystery writer Agatha Christie disappeared without explanation for eleven days...
4 British author Bram Stoker married Florence Balcombe...	5 Poet Christina Rossetti was born in London...	6 The 12-year ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses was lifted in …...	7 Irish poet Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in …...	8 John McCrae’s war poem “In Flanders Fields” appeared anonymously in …...	9 Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Charge of the Light Brigade,” was …...	10 Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his …...
11 German playwright Christian Dietrich Grabbe was born in Detmold...	12 British poet and playwright Robert Browning died in Venice...	13 German poet Heinrich Heine was born in Düsseldorf...	14 Celebrated American author Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco...	15 American novelist Betty Smith was born in Brooklyn, NY...	16 Science fiction author and inventor Arthur C...	17 Fireside poet John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts...
18 Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, …...	19 Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was self-published after a disagreement …...	20 Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm published their collection of 86 fairy …...	21 American author F...	22 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was spared at the last minute …...	23 Jane Austen’s novel Emma was published in London... A poem titled “A Visit From Saint Nicholas” was published …...	24 Stephenie Meyer, author of young adult bestselling series Twilight, was …...
25 The film To Kill a Mockingbird was released in theaters …...	26 Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie premiered in Chicago...	27 Poet and author Elizabeth Smart was born in Ottowa, Ontario...	28 Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac premiered in Paris...	29 British poet Christina Rossetti lost her battle with breast cancer …...	30 Author Rudyard Kipling was born in British-occupied Bombay, India...	31 Writer and playwright Horacio Quiroga was born in Salto, Uruguay...