It's National Poetry Month in Great Britain!
	Happy Halloween!
	National Novel Writing Month starts tomorrow. Ever wanted to write a novel? Warm up your word processor at midnight!
	In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, on this day in 1492, Sir Nicholas "Nearly Headless Nick" de Mimsy-Porpington was nearly beheaded (but completely killed) in his nearly-botched execution on this date. His ghost spends the next 500 years with a head that can go up and down like a toilet seat, but still cannot qualify for the Headless Hunt.
	John Keats, one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement, was born on this day in 1795
	Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was published on this day in 1892
	Neal Stephenson, "Hacker tourist" and postcyberpunk novelist (Cryptonomicon) was born on this day in 1959
	In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, this is the date in 1981 that Lord Voldemort unsuccessfully attacked the infant Harry, giving him his trademark lightning-bolt scar and some of Voldemort's powers
	Studs Terkel (The Good War) died on this day in 2008
	Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting) died on this day in 2016