Henry Fielding's Tom Jones was first published on this day in 1749
	Henry James (The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Turn of the Screw) died on this day in 1916
	The academic integrity of Webster's New International Dictionary was questioned on this day in 1939 when the non-existent word "Dord" was discovered to have been mistakenly included.
	Scottish historian David R. Ross (On the Trail of William Wallace, The Black Douglas, For Freedom) was born on this day in 1958
	Henry R. Luce, the magazine publisher who created Time, Life, Sports Illustrated and Fortune, died on this day in 1967
	Daniel Handler, better known under his pen name Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events) was born on this day in 1970
	Thomas Pynchon's epic postmodern novel Gravity's Rainbow was first published on this day in 1973
	On this day in 1989, two bookstores in Berkeley, California were firebombed for selling Salman Rushdie's controversial novel (The Satanic verses).
	Pulitzer-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (War and the American Presidency) died on this day in 2007