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Calendar of Literary Facts

1687: Edmund Waller dies

1772: Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born

1790: Alphonse de Lamartine is born

1805: The British fleet under Horatio Nelson defeats French naval forces at the Battle of Trafalgar

1879: Thomas Edison invents the electric light bulb

1929: Ursula K. Le Guin is born

1956: Carrie Fisher is born

1969: Jack Kerouac dies

1974: Donald Goines dies