On this day in 1833, an anti-Mormon mob in Independence, Missouri, destroyed the printing press for the Book of Commandments, now among the most valuable 19th century books. | |
Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad was published on this day in 1869 | |
Cormac McCarthy (The Road, Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West) was born on this day in 1933 | |
Gregory Hill, better known as Malaclypse the Younger (Principia Discordia) died on this day in 2000 (according to a Usenet post) |
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