![]() | It's Towel Day today. First celebrated two weeks after author Douglas Adams' death in 2001, this day commemorates Adams and his work, its name being a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. Fans carry a towel with them all day, as it is "about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." |
![]() | Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature, The Transcendentalist) was born on this day in 1803 |
![]() | Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray) was convicted of gross indecency on this day in 1895 |
![]() | Phyllis Gotlieb (O Master Caliban!, Sunburst) was born on this day in 1926 |
![]() | Robert Ludlum (The Bourne Identity) was born on this day in 1927 |
![]() | W. P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe, Box Socials) was born on this day in 1935 |
![]() | Poppy Z. Brite (Lost Souls, Drawing Blood. Are You Loathsome Tonight?) was born on this day in 1967 |
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