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 Richard Wright’s controversial novel Native Son was published...	2 Cartoonist and author Theodor Geisel, known better by the name …...	3 Anne Sullivan began working in the Keller household for their …...	4 Imagist poet William Carlos Williams died in his sleep at …...	5 Shakespeare’s Richard III was performed in Williamsburg, Virginia...
6 Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in Durham, England...	7 Modernist playwright and author Kōbō Abe was born in Tokyo...	8 The first episode of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to …...	9 British author and poet Vita Sackville-West, later known as Lady …...	10 Greek poet Manolis Anagnostakis was born in Thessaloniki...	11 Italian poet Tarquato Tasso was born in Naples...	12 Beat poet Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts...
13 George Bernard Shaw’s final installment of his Methuselah play series …...	14 American author Ernest Hemingway married journalist Mary Welsh...	15	16 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous novel The Scarlet Letter was published in …...	17 Playwright Paul Green was born in Lillington, North Carolina...	18 Today is the birthday for two famous poets...	19 Arthur C...
20 Playwright Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway...	21 Nigerian author and professor Chinua Achebe died at the age …...	22 Poet and professor Billy Collins was born in New York …...	23 Educator and author Jim Trelease was born in Orange, New …...	24 Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered …...	25 D...	26 American poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California...
27 Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez married Mercedes Barcha...	28 Poet and author Virginia Woolf died in Sussex, England...	29 F...	30 Author Anne Sewell was born in Norfolk, England...	31 Short story writer and novelist Flannery O’Connor was born in …...