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Calendar of Literary Facts

1775: The Battles of Lexington and Concord occur, commencing hostilities in the American War for Independence

1824: George Gordon, Lord Byron dies

1832: José Echegaray is born

1900: Richard Hughes is born

1931: Etheridge Knight is born

1936: Sharon Pollock is born

1947: Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play major league baseball, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers

1955: Neil Bissoondath is born

1989: Daphne Du Maurier dies

1998: Octavio Paz dies