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Calendar of Literary Facts

1905: H. E. Bates is born

1906: Arturo Uslar Pietri is born

1918: Juan Rulfo is born

1925: William Hoffman is born

1929: Adrienne Rich is born

1943: The 70,000 Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto are liquidated by German occupation forces after an unsuccessful uprising

1944: George Ade dies

1955: James Agee dies

1984: Irwin Shaw dies