On this day in 2006, Protesters in Italy and the Philippines burned copies of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code to protest the release of the motion picture.
On this day in 2010, the "Lost Man Booker Prize" for 1970 was finally awarded to J. G. Farrell's Troubles. A rules change in 1971 left a hole in the Man Booker Prize timeline that was finally filled by this retroactive award.
