Literary Facts - February 12
1567: Thomas Campion is born. (Explore: Thomas Campion, My Sweetest Lesbia, There Is a Garden in Her Face)
1793: The U.S. Congress passes the first Fugitive Slave Law
1804: Immanuel Kant dies. (Explore: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Judgment)
1828: George Meredith is born. (Explore: The Egoist, George Meredith, Lucifer in Starlight)
1881: Hatcher Hughes is born
1912: Ronald Frederick Delderfield is born
1923: Alan Dugan is born. (Explore: Alan Dugan, Poems Seven, Funeral Oration for a Mouse)
1938: Judy Blume is born. (Explore: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Forever …, Judy Blume, Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret)
1971: Ella Deloria dies. (Explore: Ella Deloria)
1980: Muriel Rukeyser dies. (Explore: Effort at Speech Between Two People, Ajanta, Muriel Rukeyser)
1984: Julio Cortázar dies. (Explore: Axolotl, The Pursuer, Julio Cortázar)
2006: Peter Benchley dies. (Explore: Jaws, Rummies, Peter Benchley)
