The first Index of Prohibited Books was published by the Vatican on this day in 1559. Works of such giants of science, philosophy, and literature as Jean Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Immanuel Kant, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Galileo Galilei, and Blaise Pascal would eventually be added to the Index, until it was finally abolished in 1966.
	Sax Rohmer (the Fu Manchu stories) died on this day in 1883
	Lew Wallace (Ben-Hur) died on this day in 1905
	Susan Brownmiller (Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape) was born on this day in 1935
	Gregory McDonald (the Fletch series) was born on this day in 1937
	Douglas Hofstadter (1980 Pulitzer-winner Gödel, Escher, Bach) was born on this day in 1945