March 4th is the only calendar date that is also a complete sentence ("March Forth"). | |
British astronomy writer Sir Patrick Moore (Observer's Book of Astronomy, New Guide to the Planets) was born on this day in 1923 | |
Canadian author Richard B. Wright (Clara Callan) was born on this day in 1937 | |
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (Strange Days: My Life With And Without Jim Morrison, The Keltiad) was born on this day in 1946 | |
James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential) was born on this day in 1948 | |
Ernest Hemingway completed The Old Man and the Sea on this day in 1952 | |
On this day in 2008, The New York Times reported that Margaret B. Jones's Love and Consequences, allegedly a memoir of growing up in a gang-controlled neighbourhood, was a fraud. The embarrassed publisher,Penguin Books recalled all copies, and the Times itself had only days earlier published a glowing review of the book. | |
Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini) died on this day in 2016 |
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