The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
November 9 Literary Facts
Mark Akenside is born
Ivan Turgenev is born
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Guillaume Apollinaire dies
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James Schuyler is born
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Anne Sexton is born
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Carl Sagan is born
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Ronald Harwood is born
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Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”) begins a compaign of government-approved anti-Jewish violence in Germany, Austria, and Sudetenland
Dylan Thomas dies
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