William Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published on this day in 1609 | |
Honoré de Balzac (The Black Sheep), a founder of the Realist movement in European literature, was born on this day in 1799 | |
John Stuart Mill (On Liberty, A System of Logic) was born on this day in 1806 | |
The Saturday Evening Post published its first issue with a Norman Rockwell cover on this day in 1916 | |
William Michaelian (A Listening Thing) was born on this day in 1956 | |
Science writer and biologist Stephen Jay Gould (Ever Since Darwin, The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox and many others) died on this day in 2002 |
www.obibooks.com