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

Robert Bridges is born

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Theophile Gautier dies

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Zane Grey dies

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Michael Crichton is born

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A truck-bomb destroys the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 marines