Karl Marx and Friederich Engels published The Communist Manifesto on this day in 1848
	Anaïs Nin, (Little Birds) was born on this day in 1903
	The New Yorker was first published on this day in 1925
	Erma Bombeck, columnist and humourist, was born on this day in 1927
	David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) was born on this day in 1962
	Soviet novelist and 1965 Nobel laureate Mikhail Sholokhov (And Quiet Flows the Don) died on this day in 1984