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February 4 Literary Facts

William Harrison Ainsworth is born

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is published.

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MacKinlay Kantor is born

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Russell Hoban is born

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Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, and Winston Churchill meet at Yalta in the Crimea

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Jonathan Larson is born

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