Calendar of Literary Facts
October 7...
1849: James Whitcomb Riley is born
1907: Helen MacInnes is born
1931: Desmond Tutu is born
1934: Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) is born
1935: Thomas Keneally is born
1939: Clive James is born
1993: Novelist Toni Morrison becomes the first black American to win the Nobel Prize for literature
2001: An American-led military coalition commences an air-war against Taliban and Al-Quaeda forces in Afghanistan, the first stage in Operation Enduring Freedom
