Calendar of Literary Facts
January 18...
1689: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu is born
1867: Rubén Darío is born
1882: A. A. Milne is born
1904: D’Arcy McNickle is born
1912: William Sansom is born
1915: The ship Endurance, commanded by Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, becomes entrapped in ice south of Elephant Island, near Antarctica
1936: Rudyard Kipling dies
1939: David French is born
1989: Bruce Chatwin dies
1993: Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert (“Victoria Holt”) dies
