Bram Stoker's Dracula went on sale in London on this day in 1897
	Canadian-born Swedish author Sven Delblanc (Samuels bok) was born on this day in 1931
	Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist, was born on this day in 1954
	Caitlin R. Kiernan (Silk, The Red Tree) was born on this day in 1964
	On this day in 2004, in one of journalism's blackest moments, the New York Times published its admission that the failure of its journalistic integrity helped to promote the (now utterly discredited) idea that Iraq had nuclear weapons - the idea that was the sole pretext for the Iraq war.
	Three-time Hugo Award winner Jack Vance (The Dying Earth, The Killing Machine) died on this day in 2013