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

Miguel de Unamuno publishes Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho)

Rubén Dario publishes Cantos de vida y esperanza, Los cisnes, y otros poemas

Albert Einstein develops the Special Theory of Relativity

Norway and Sweden become separate nations

In the industrial Ruhr region in Germany, 200,000 miners go on strike

Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin; this prelude to the Russian Revolution is suppressed

Henryk Sienkiewicz receives the Nobel Prize for Literature

Verner von Heidenstam publishes Folkungatraedet (The Tree of the Folkungs)

Romain Rolland publishes his ten-volume novel Jean-Christophe

The Brooklyn Public Library bans Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn from the shelves of its children’s department, citing these books as “bad examples for ingenuous youth”

John O’Hara is born

Explore: Appointment in Samarra

Ayn Rand is born

Explore: The Fountainhead, Anthem, Ayn Rand

Phyllis McGinley is born

Explore: Reactionary Essay on Applied Science, The Conquerors, Phyllis McGinley

Robert Penn Warren is born

Explore: All the King's Men, Blackberry Winter, A Place To Come To, Robert Penn Warren

H. E. Bates is born

Explore: The Daffodil Sky, H. E. Bates

John Patrick is born

Explore: The Teahouse of the August Moon, John Patrick

Mikhail Sholokhov is born

Explore: And Quiet Flows the Don, Mikhail Sholokhov

Jean-Paul Sartre is born

Explore: No Exit, The Wall, Jean-Paul Sartre

Lionel Trilling is born

Explore: The Middle of the Journey, Lionel Trilling, Of This Time, Of That Place, What does Lionel Trilling mean by "It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief"?

Mildred Augustine Benson is born. Under the name "Carolyn Keene," she contributed to the Nancy Drew series.

Explore: Nancy Drew Series, Carolyn Keene

Elias Canetti is born

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Stanley Kunitz is born

Explore: Father and Son, Stanley Kunitz

Mary Mapes Dodge dies

Explore: Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates, Mary Mapes Dodge

George MacDonald dies

Explore: The Golden Key, The Princess and the Goblin

Meyer Levin is born

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C. P. Snow is born

Explore: The Conscience of the Rich, C. P. Snow

Frederic Dannay is born

Emlyn Williams is born

Explore: Night Must Fall, Emlyn Williams

Mulk Raj Anand is born

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Kenneth Rexroth is born

Explore: Kenneth Rexroth

Frank Marshall Davis is born