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

April 29 Literary Facts

George Farquhar dies

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C. P. Cavafy dies

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Robert E. Sherwood’s drama There Shall Be No Night is first performed

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Russell Kirk dies

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John Kenneth Galbraith dies

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