The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
July 20 Literary Facts
Petrarch is born
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Thomas Berger is born
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Frantz Fanon is born
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Cormac McCarthy is born
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Alistair MacLeod is born
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An assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life, involving a briefcase-bomb, fails
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