Popular Mechanics magazine was first published on this day in 1912
	Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd) died on this day in 1928
	Diana Gabaldon (Outlander) was born on this day in 1952
	John Grisham's The Broker was first published in the United States on this day in 2005
	Robert Anton Wilson (Schrödinger's Cat) died on this day in 2007
	J. K. Rowling, having just completed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on this day in 2007, vandalized a bust of Hermes in her Edinburgh hotel room by writing on it "J. K. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11 January 2007."
	Anne Frank biographer Miep Gies died on this day in 2010