Frederick Douglass, abolitionist writer and lecturer, was born on this day in 1818
	P. G. Wodehouse (Right Ho, Jeeves) died on this day in 1975
	On this dark day in 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa demanding the murder of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, and his publisher.
	Anne Rice's The Wolf Gift was published on this day in 2012