![]() | 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 |
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