1703 - Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) was placed in a pillory for seditious libel after publishing a pamphlet politically satirising the High Church Tories.
Faye Kellerman (Sacred and Profane) was born on this day in 1952. Kellerman and her husband, fellow novelist Jonathan Kellerman, are the only husband and wife ever to appear simultaneously on the New York Times bestseller list, for different books.
