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The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

February 17 Literary Facts

1836

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer is born

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1924

Margaret Truman is born

1928

Robert Newton Peck is born

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1929

Chaim Potok is born

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