Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published on this day in 1852. It would be banned in the contemporary southern U. S. states for its abolitionist position, and ironically, in 1984 banned in Waukegan, Illinois for racist language.
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity was published on this day in 1916
Australian novelist David Malouf (International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award-winner Remembering Babylon) was born on this day in 1934