James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans was first published on this day in 1826
	Siobhan Dowd (A Swift Pure Cry) was born on this day in 1960
	Ian Fleming's James Bond novel The Living Daylights was published on this day in 1962
	Neal Cassady, beatnik writer and inspiration/contemporary of Jack Kerouac, died on this day in 1968
	Davis Dresser, better known by his pen name Brett Halliday (Dividend on Death, The Private Practice of Michael Shayne) died on this day in 1977
	Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train) died on this day in 1995