Calendar of Literary Facts
January 1...
1716: William Wycherley dies
1808: A federal law goes into effect in the U.S. prohibiting the importation of African slaves
1854: J. G. Frazer is born
1863: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln publishes the Emancipation Proclamation
1873: Mariano Azuela is born
1914: Ambrose Bierce dies
1919: J. D. Salinger is born
1921: Patricia Highsmith is born
1928: Iain Crichton Smith is born
1933: John Kingsley (“Joe”) Orton is born
1954: Leonard Bacon dies
2000: Yearlong fears of global disaster because of the “Y2K bug” end on New Years Day, with little computer-related disruption of power and services worldwide
