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

Samuel Johnson is born

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George MacDonald dies

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The fictional twosome of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves is introduced by P. G. Wodehouse in the story “Extricating Young Gussie,” published in The Saturday Evening Post