The United States enacted its first copyright law, "Copyright Act of 1790" on this day in 1790
	Poet Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass) was born on this day in 1819. In its time, Whitman's work was very controversial.
	Soviet writer and 1965 Nobel nominee Konstantin Paustovsky was born on this day in 1892
	On this day in 1981, the Jaffna public library in Sri Lanka was burned by an organized mob, destroying over 97,000 books and manuscripts.
	Timothy Leary (The Politics of Ecstasy) died on this day in 1986