William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures in 20th century literature, was born on this day in 1865 | |
Gerald Gardner (Witchcraft Today) was born on this day in 1884 | |
Dorothy L. Sayers (Whose Body?, Gaudy Night) was born on this day in 1893 | |
Ann Druyan (A Famous Broken Heart, and with her husband Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Comet, The Demon-Haunted World), was born on this day in 1949 | |
Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife) was born on this day in 1963 | |
1971 — In a major win for freedom of the press, The Pentagon Papers, a top-secret report documenting the history of the Vietnam War, was published in the New York Times after being leaked through its use in the Congressional Record. Public debate on the morality of the war instantly became mainstream, and the credibility of the administrations of presidents Johnson and Nixon was damaged. | |
Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow) authorized the digital publication of his entire back catalog on this day in 2012 |
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