Calendar of Literary Facts:
- William F. Buckley Jr. publishes Up from Liberalism
- Whittaker Chambers's harsh review of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged in William F. Buckley's National Review enrages Rand, who thereafter refuses to acknowledge Buckley
- William F. Buckley Jr. founds National Review
- William F. Buckley Jr. publishes God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom”
- William F. Buckley Jr. is born
