The Canadian Library Association was established in Ottawa on this day in 1946
Publishing magnate (and Pulitzer winner for his interview in 1955 with Nikita Kruschchev) William Randolph Hearst Jr. died on this day in 1993
Journalist and conservation activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas (The Everglades: River of Grass) died on this day in 1998 at the age of 108. A high school in Parkland, Florida named for her was the site of one of America's worst school shootings.
Pulitzer-winning poet Stanley Kunitz died on this day in 2006, at the age of 100
