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

January 20 Literary Facts

David Garrick dies

Josephine W. Johnson is born

Jacques Ferron is born

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Ernesto Cardenal is born

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Bernice Zamora is born

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Robert Olen Butler is born

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Maya Angelou reads her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton

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