James Gordon Bennett, Sr. published the first issue of The New York Herald on this day in 1835
	Henry David Thoreau (Walden, Civil Disobedience) died on this day in 1862
	Theodore White (Pulitzer-winning The Making of the President) was born on this day in 1915
	L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) died on this day in 1919
	John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer prize for The Grapes of Wrath on this day in 1940
	Jeffery Deaver (The Bone Collector) was born on this day in 1950
	After expert examination, the Hitler diaries were exposed as a hoax on this day in 1983
	Anne Rice's The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned was published on this day in 1999