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

Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. publishes Caleb, the Degenerate; A Play in Four Acts: A Study of the Types, Customs, and Needs of the American Negro

Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild

Henry James publishes The Ambassadors

Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh is published

Orville and Wilbur Wright fly the first motorized airplane at Kitty Hawk (actually Kill Devil Hills), North Carolina

Henry Ford founds the Ford Motor Company

One of the earliest motion pictures, The Great Train Robbery, is released

Anti-Jewish pogroms break out in Russia

The reformist Social Democratic Party in Russia splits into two factions: the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks

W. E. B. Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson receives the Nobel Prize for Literature

Alan Paton is born

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Georges Simenon is born

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Anaïs Nin is born

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Morley Callaghan is born

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Malcolm Muggeridge is born

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Benjamin Spock is born

Lorine Niedecker is born

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Countee Cullen is born

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Marguerite Yourcenar is born

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Eric Blair (George Orwell) is born

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John D. Voelker is born

William Ernest Henley dies

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Irving Stone is born

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Paul Horgan is born

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James Gould Cozzens is born

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Caroline Pafford (Miller) is born

Phyllis A. Whitney is born

Cyril Connolly is born

Evelyn Waugh is born

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Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen dies

Erskine Caldwell is born

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