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Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/25/20 at 11:26 am

March 25th 1913 - Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (New York City, New York) starring Ed Wynn.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/26/20 at 7:37 am

March 26th 1780 - The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor was published for the first time. It was the first Sunday newspaper in Britain.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/26/20 at 10:34 am

March 26th 1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/26/20 at 7:41 pm

March 26th 1964 - "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand opens at Winter Garden Theater in New York City for 1,348 performances.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/26/20 at 7:46 pm

March 26th 2008, The Los Angeles Times apologised for claiming rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was involved in a 1994 shooting of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur. The LA Times, which published the original story on its website, initially said its claims were based on FBI records, witness accounts and other unnamed sources. The apology followed a claim that the newspaper was conned by a prisoner who doctored the documents used.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/27/20 at 7:11 pm

March 27th 1978 - Bob Fosse's Dancin' opens at Broadhurst Theater in New York City for 1,774 performances.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/29/20 at 7:50 am

March 29th 1951 – “The King and I” play opens at the Saint James Theater in New York City for 1246 performances.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/29/20 at 12:55 pm

March 29th 1973, Dr Hook And The Medicine Show got their picture on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine after their hit, 'The Cover of Rolling Stone' reached No. 6 on the US singles chart. According to members of the group, they really did buy five copies for their mothers, just like the song said.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/30/20 at 8:05 am

March 30th 1993 - Peanuts comic strip character Charlie Brown hits a baseball game-winning home run, his first in 43 years.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/31/20 at 1:27 pm

March 31st 1943 - Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, New York.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/31/20 at 5:27 pm

March 31st 1900 - The W.E. Roach Company was the first automobile company to put an advertisement in a national magazine. The magazine was the "Saturday Evening Post".

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/31/20 at 5:46 pm

March 31st 1933 - The "Soperton News" in Georgia became the first newspaper to publish using a pine pulp paper.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/31/20 at 6:35 pm

March 31st 1945 - "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/20 at 8:18 am

April 1st 1724 - Jonathan Swift published Drapier's letters.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/20 at 11:56 am

April 1st 1854 – Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine Household Words.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/20 at 3:20 pm

April 1st 1872 - The first edition of "The Standard" was published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/02/20 at 7:28 am

April 2nd 1819 - First successful agricultural journal (The American Farmer) begins.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/02/20 at 4:22 pm

April 2nd 1989 - An editorial in the "New York Times" declared that the Cold War was over.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/02/20 at 5:45 pm

April 2nd 1972 - Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/03/20 at 10:11 am

April 3rd 1953 - "TV Guide" was published for the first time. The cover was a photo of Lucille Ball's infant Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/03/20 at 12:26 pm

April 3rd 1933 - First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt informed newspaper reporters that beer would be served at the White House. This followed the March 22 legislation that legalized "3.2" beer.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/05/20 at 2:35 pm

April 5th 1892 - In New York, the Ithaca Daily Journal published an ad introducing a new 10 cent Ice Cream Specialty called a Cherry Sunday.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/06/20 at 10:17 am

April 6th 1959 - Hal Holbrook opened in the off-Broadway presentation of "Mark Twain Tonight."

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/07/20 at 12:59 pm

April 7th 1949 - Rogers and Hammerstein's play “South Pacific” opens at Majestic Theater in New York and ran for 1928 performances

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/07/20 at 6:03 pm

April 7th 1888 - P.F. Collier published a weekly periodical for the first time under the name "Collier’s."

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/08/20 at 10:07 am

April 8th 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/08/20 at 4:15 pm

April 8th 1992 - In Britain, the last issue of "Punch Magazine" was published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/20 at 12:19 pm

April 9th 1965 - "TIME" magazine featured a cover with the entire "Peanuts" comic gang.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/20 at 5:30 pm

April 9th 1928 - Mae West made her debut on Broadway in the production of "Diamond Lil."

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/20 at 5:19 pm

April 10th 1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/20 at 4:54 am

April 12th 1969 - Lucy and Snoopy of the comic strip "Peanuts" made the cover of "Saturday Review."

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/20 at 3:08 pm

April 12th 1934 - F. Scott Fitzgerald novel "Tender Is the Night" was first published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/20 at 4:53 pm

April 14th 1828 - The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary was published under the name "American Dictionary of the English Language."

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/20 at 6:16 pm

April 14th 1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/20 at 7:15 am

April 15th 1755 – Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" is published in London.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/20 at 12:46 pm

April 15th 1794 - "Courrier Francais" became the first French daily newspaper to be published in the U.S.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/20 at 11:05 am

April 16th 1989 - The Dilbert comic strip is syndicated for the first time.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/20 at 7:32 am

April 17th 1704 - John Campbell published what would eventually become the first successful American newspaper. It was known as the Boston "News-Letter."

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/20 at 8:52 am

April 17th 1758 - Frances Williams published a collection of Latin poems. He was the first African-American to graduate from a college in the western hemisphere.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/18/20 at 10:44 am

April 18th 1995 - Houston Post newspaper folds after 116 years.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/19/20 at 4:31 pm

April 19th 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play "Sex".

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/20/20 at 2:37 pm

April 20th 1841 - In Philadelphia, PA, Edgar Allen Poe's first detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," was published in Graham's Magazine.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/21/20 at 2:32 pm

April 21st 1934 – The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/21/20 at 3:22 pm

April 21st 1828 - Noah Webster publishes first American dictionary.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/21/20 at 4:54 pm

April 21st 1977 - "Annie" opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre, now the Neil Simon Theatre’

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/20 at 8:00 am

April 23rd 1954 - Lucille Ball appeared solo on the cover of "TV Guide" for the first time. Ball eventually made appearances on 34 "TV Guide" covers.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/20 at 12:28 pm

April 23rd 1789 - "Courier De Boston" was published for the first time. It was the first Roman Catholic magazine in the U.S.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/20 at 2:44 pm

April 23rd 1900 - The word "hillbilly" was first used in print in an article in the "New York Journal." It was spelled "Hill-Billie".

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/20 at 7:47 am

April 24th 1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/20 at 3:06 pm

April 24th 1897 - William Price, of the Washington Star, became the first to be named White House news reporter.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/20 at 4:19 pm

April 24th 1923 – In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/20 at 1:09 pm

April 25th 1987 - Peter O'Toole opened in "Pygmalion" on Broadway.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/20 at 2:33 pm

April 26th 1989 – People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/20 at 3:34 pm

April 26th 1937 - "LIFE" magazine was printed without the word "LIFE" on the cover.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/20 at 7:37 am

April 28th 1968, The Broadway musical “Hair” premiered at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City. The show featured the songs 'Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In', 'Good Morning Starshine' and the title song. The production ran for 1,729 performances, finally closing on July 1st, 1972.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/20 at 8:10 am

April 28th 1686 - The first volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathamatic" was published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/20 at 8:29 am

April 28th 1990 – “Chorus Line” closes at Shubert Theater in New York City after 6,137 performances (15 years).

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/20 at 9:52 am

April 29th 1852 - The first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus was published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/30/20 at 5:03 am

April 30th 1722 - The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: nally on 05/02/20 at 11:35 am

65 years ago today, on May 2nd 1955: Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/20 at 11:01 am

May 5th 1955 – “Damn Yankees” opens at 46th Street Theater in New York City for 1022 performances.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/20 at 2:38 pm

May 5th 1891 - Carnegie Hall opens in New York City with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/20 at 4:23 pm

May 5th 1912 – Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/20 at 10:55 pm

May 5th 1927 – “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf is first published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/20 at 9:16 am

May 6th 1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/20 at 4:39 pm

May 6th 1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by experts.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/07/20 at 8:00 am

May 7th 1663 - The first Theatre Royal was opened in London.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/07/20 at 8:06 am

May 7th 2003 - Roger Moore collapsed during a matinee performance of the Broadway comedy "The Play What I Wrote." He finished the show after a 10-minute break. He was fitted with a pacemaker the following day.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/07/20 at 3:30 pm

May 7th 1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/20 at 9:37 am

May 8th 1952 - Mad Magazine published for the first time.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/10/20 at 10:26 am

May 10th 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/11/20 at 3:40 am

May 11th 868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/11/20 at 3:45 pm

May 11th 1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/20 at 7:27 am

May 12th 1593 – London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/20 at 7:31 am

May 13th 1954 – The original Broadway production of “The Pajama Game” opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/14/20 at 4:29 pm

May 14th 1969 - Jacqueline Susann’s second novel, "The Love Machine," was published by Simon and Schuster.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/14/20 at 5:31 pm

May 14th 1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/14/20 at 5:44 pm

May 14th 2002, The musical “We Will Rock You” opened in London, England at the Dominion Theatre. The musical was written by British comedian and author Ben Elton in collaboration with Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor. The musical tells the story of a group of Bohemians who struggle to restore the free exchange of thought, fashion, and live music in a distant future where everyone dresses, thinks and does the same. Musical instruments and composers are forbidden, and rock music is all but unknown. WWRY has since become the longest-running musical at the Dominion Theatre.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/20 at 5:34 am

May 15th 1964 - The Smothers Brothers, Dick and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/20 at 12:21 pm

May 15th 2013 – In a study published in the scientific journal Nature, researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in the United States describe the first production of human embryonic stem cells by cloning.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/20 at 10:04 am

May 16th 1946 - "Annie Get Your Gun" premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/20/20 at 5:21 am

May 20th 1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/20/20 at 2:27 pm

May 20th 1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius published Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: nally on 05/21/20 at 1:30 pm

45 years ago today, on May 21st 1975: The musical A Chorus Line was performed for the first time, opening at the Newman Theater in New York City. When the production moved to the Shubert Theater on Broadway, it would run for 6,104 performances.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/22/20 at 2:46 am

May 22nd 1900 – The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/25/20 at 7:23 am

May 25th 1895 – Playwright, poet, novelist and aesthete Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/25/20 at 10:55 am

May 25th 1844 - First telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot in Maryland, USA.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/25/20 at 1:51 pm

May 25th 1895 - James P. Lee first published "Gold in America -- A Practical Manual."

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/26/20 at 2:09 pm

May 26th 1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/26/20 at 2:30 pm

May 26th 1913 - Actors’ Equity Association was organized in New York City.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/20 at 12:59 pm

May 27th 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero, "Batman".

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/20 at 11:17 am

May 28th 1974 – The Stephen Schwartz musical Magic Show premieres at the Cort Theater in New York City for 1859 performances.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/20 at 12:56 pm

May 28th 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/20 at 2:31 pm

May 28th 1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/20 at 7:47 am

May 29th 1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/01/20 at 9:00 am

June 1st 1857 – Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal" is published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/01/20 at 11:42 am

June 1st 1981, The first issue of the Heavy Metal magazine Kerrang! was published as a special pull-out by UK weekly music paper Sounds. AC/DC had the front cover plus features on Motorhead, Girlschool and Saxon.

Subject: Re: Yesterday in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/02/20 at 12:36 am

June 1st 1938 - Superman comic book is launched.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/02/20 at 7:13 am

June 2nd 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/02/20 at 12:31 pm

June 2nd 1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/03/20 at 2:20 am

June 3rd 1888 - "Casey at the Bat" is published in the San Francisco Examiner.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/20 at 4:16 pm

June 4th 2003 - Amazon.com announced that it had received more than 1 million orders for the book "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." The released date was planned for June 21.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/20 at 4:23 am

June 5th 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/08/20 at 2:00 pm

June 8th 1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/09/20 at 7:10 am

June 9th 1790 - John Barry copyrighted "Philadelphia Spelling Book." It was the first American book to be copyrighted.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/09/20 at 9:09 am

June 9th 1860 - The Ms. Ann Stevens book "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter" was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first published "dime novel."

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/20 at 7:49 am

June 10th 1806 - New York's "Commercial Advertiser" became the first U.S. newspaper to cover the sport of harness racing.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/11/20 at 7:03 am

June 11th 1967, Printed in this week's music weekly Melody Maker's ad's pages, 'Freaky lead guitarist, bass and drummer wanted for Marc Bolan's new group. Also any other astral flyers like with car's amplification and that which never grows in window boxes, phone Wimbledon 0697.' The band who formed as Tyrannosaurus Rex, went on to release four underground folk albums before becoming known as T. Rex.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/21/20 at 11:54 am

June 21st 2003 - The fifth Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," was published by J.K. Rowling. Amazon.com shipped out more than one million copies on this day making the day the largest distribution day of a single item in e-commerce history. The book set sales records around the world with an estimated 5 million copies sold on the first day.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/21/20 at 5:32 pm

June 21st 1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opened at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.

Subject: Re: Today in Literature History (Books, Poems, Publishing, and Theatre)

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/20 at 3:07 pm

June 24th 1965, John Lennon's second book of poetry and drawings, 'A Spaniard In The Works', was published. The book consisted of nonsensical stories and drawings similar to the style of his 1964 book 'In His Own Write'.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/20 at 12:54 am

June 25th 1580 - The Book of Concord was first published. The book is a collection of doctrinal standards of the Lutheran Church.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/20 at 1:32 pm

June 25th 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/20 at 2:14 pm

June 25th 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/20 at 3:18 am

June 29th 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/20 at 11:01 am

June 29th 1901 - The first edition of "Editor & Publisher" was issued in New York.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/20 at 2:48 pm

June 29th 1991, while playing the lead role in a new London production of the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jason Donovan had his third UK No.1 single with 'Any Dream Will Do'.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/20 at 1:22 pm

July 1st 1972 - Ms. magazine begins publishing.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/20 at 2:27 pm

July 1st 1973 - In New York City, "Jesus Christ Superstar" closed after 711 shows on Broadway.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/06/20 at 2:54 pm

July 6th 1865 – The first issue of The Nation magazine is published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/20 at 12:53 pm

July 7th 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

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Written By: nally on 07/11/20 at 11:01 am

60 years ago today, on July 11th 1960: To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, featuring themes of racial injustice and the loss of innocence in the Deep South of America, was published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/14/20 at 12:08 pm

July 14th 1908 - "The Adventures of Dolly" opened at the Union Square Theatre in New York City.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/14/20 at 1:56 pm

July 14th 1946 - Dr. Benjamin Spock’s "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was first published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/20 at 7:47 am

July 16th 2005 - J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was published. It was the sixth in the Harry Potter series. The book sold 6.9 million copies on its first day of release.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/20 at 8:19 am

July 16th 1926 - The first underwater color photographs appeared in "National Geographic" magazine. The pictures had been taken near the Florida Keys.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/20 at 3:31 pm

July 16th 1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was first published.

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Written By: nally on 07/21/20 at 11:04 pm

July 21st 2007: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series by J. K. Rowling, is published worldwide. 11 million copies would sell in 24 hours' time.

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Written By: nally on 07/22/20 at 5:23 pm

July 22nd 1598: William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers' Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers' Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.

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Written By: nally on 07/25/20 at 2:10 pm

45 years ago today, on May 21st 1975: The musical A Chorus Line was performed for the first time, opening at the Newman Theater in New York City. When the production moved to the Shubert Theater on Broadway, it would run for 6,104 performances.

And then 65 days later, on July 25th 1975: The musical A Chorus Line began a fifteen-year run on Broadway, in the first of 6,137 performances at the Shubert Theatre.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/20 at 11:52 am

July 26th 1887 – Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/20 at 1:15 pm

July 26th 1918 – Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/29/20 at 10:14 am

July 29th 1786 - "The Pittsburgh Gazette" became the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies to be published. The paper's name was later changed to "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette."

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/12/20 at 7:43 am

August 12th 1915 - "Of Human Bondage" by William Somerset Maugham was first published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/20 at 4:18 am

August 14th 1457 – Publication of the Mainz Psalter, the first book to feature a printed date of publication and printed colophon.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/16/20 at 4:27 am

August 16th 1954 - Sports Illustrated was published for the first time. It was claimed that 250,000 subscriptions had been sold before the first issue came off of the presses.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/20 at 3:30 am

August 20th 1858 – Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/20 at 4:41 am

August 20th 1862 - Horace Greeley's "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" was published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/20 at 6:29 am

August 28th 1964 - The Beatles appeared on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/20 at 10:40 am

September 1st 1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/20 at 12:42 pm

September 1st 1998 - J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was released in the U.S. This was the first book in the Harry Potter series.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/06/20 at 11:31 am

September 6th 1642 – England's Parliament bans public stage-plays.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/07/20 at 1:45 pm

September 7th 1907 - Oscar Hammerstein announced a plan for five opera houses in New York.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/16/20 at 8:28 am

September 16th 1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/16/20 at 12:58 pm

September 16th 1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/20 at 2:56 am

September 18th 1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/22/20 at 3:34 pm

September 22nd 1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/23/20 at 4:27 pm

September 23rd 1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/20 at 4:17 pm

September 27th 1962 – Rachel Carson's book “Silent Spring” is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/05/20 at 5:03 am

October 5th 1990 – After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/06/20 at 5:00 pm

October 5th 1955 - The play "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened at the Cort Theatre in New York.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/08/20 at 9:38 am

October 8th 1982 – After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/08/20 at 3:28 pm

October 8th 1962 – Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.

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Written By: nally on 10/18/20 at 12:46 pm

Ninety years ago today, on October 18th 1930: The Geoffrey Kerr comedy play London Calling opened at the Little Theatre in Rochester, New York.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/20 at 7:44 am

October 20th 1973 – The Sydney Opera House was opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/20 at 12:51 pm

October 22nd 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/02/20 at 3:18 pm

November 2nd 1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/03/20 at 6:17 am

November 3rd 1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/05/20 at 1:00 am

November 5th 1499 – Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.

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Written By: nally on 11/14/20 at 2:06 pm

November 14th 1851: Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/20 at 2:05 pm

November 19th 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/20 at 10:34 am

November 24th 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species”.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/20 at 1:13 pm

November 24th 1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/20 at 11:21 am

November 25th 1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/20 at 3:29 pm

December 3rd 1960 – The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/20 at 10:07 am

December 7th 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/20 at 7:30 am

December 8th 1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/20 at 9:49 am

December 8th 1962 – Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.

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Written By: nally on 12/10/20 at 10:51 am

December 10th 1884: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is first published in the UK and Canada. It wouldn't get published in the US until February 1885 (two months later), due to printing error.

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Written By: nally on 12/10/20 at 10:51 am

December 10th 1909: Selma Lagerlöf, a native of Sweden, becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Written By: nally on 12/23/20 at 7:40 pm

December 23rd 1815: The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/21 at 10:56 am

January 5th 1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/21 at 3:42 pm

January 5th 1953 – The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/21 at 2:42 pm

January 7th 1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson became the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/19/21 at 6:27 am

January 19th 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance in Braunschweig, Germany.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/21/21 at 9:16 am

January 21st 1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown, is printed in Boston.

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Written By: nally on 02/02/21 at 11:24 am

99 years ago today, on February 2nd 1922: James Joyce publishes the novel Ulysses on his 40th birthday.

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Written By: nally on 02/04/21 at 6:37 pm

February 4th 1938 - "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway.

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Written By: nally on 02/08/21 at 5:00 pm

75 years ago today, on February 8th 1946: The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible -- the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version -- is published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/17/21 at 10:20 am

February 17th 1933 – Newsweek magazine is first published.

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Written By: nally on 02/18/21 at 5:10 pm

February 18th 1885: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.

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Written By: nally on 02/19/21 at 11:49 pm

February 19th 1949: Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

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Written By: nally on 02/21/21 at 3:11 pm

The New Yorker published its first issue on this day in 1925.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/23/21 at 7:05 am

February 23rd 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/24/21 at 1:57 pm

February 24th 1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving its owner, Irish writer and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, destitute.

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Written By: nally on 03/09/21 at 5:28 pm

245 years ago today, on March 9th 1776: Scottish political economist Adam Smith's book The Wealth of Nations, the first modern work in the field of economics, was first published.

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Written By: nally on 03/11/21 at 8:06 pm

March 11th 1702 - The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time.

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Written By: nally on 03/14/21 at 11:38 am

March 14th 1972: Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, known for his translation of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago after it had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union, died in a mysterious explosion.

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Written By: nally on 03/14/21 at 11:40 am

March 14th 1885: The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/25/21 at 5:59 am

March 25th 1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/03/21 at 4:27 pm

April 3rd 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/04/21 at 7:47 am

April 4th 1859 – Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.

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Written By: nally on 04/10/21 at 11:03 am

April 10th 1925: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/21 at 2:11 pm

April 10th 1939 – Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A.'s "Big Book", is first published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/21 at 10:08 am

April 15th 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

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Written By: nally on 04/21/21 at 11:09 pm

The musical Annie opened on Boardway on April 21st 1977.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/21 at 11:15 am

April 27th 1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/21 at 5:08 pm

May 5th 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/21 at 9:16 am

May 6th 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/21 at 10:32 am

May 6th 1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/21 at 12:54 pm

May 6th 1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/21 at 5:18 pm

May 6th 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

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Written By: nally on 05/07/21 at 11:56 pm

175 years ago today, on May 7th 1846: The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/11/21 at 12:48 am

May 11th 868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/21 at 10:54 am

May 12th 1593 – London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/21 at 2:45 am

May 13th 1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/21 at 10:04 am

May 13th 1984 - "The Fantasticks" became the longest-running musical in theatre history with performance number 10,000. The show opened on May 3, 1960.

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Written By: nally on 05/15/21 at 2:35 pm

May 15th 1711 - Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is published anonymously.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/18/21 at 7:58 am

May 18th 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/18/21 at 9:38 am

May 18th 1949 - Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America was incorporated.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/20/21 at 7:54 am

May 20th 1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/23/21 at 2:25 pm

May 23rd 2002, 'Up For Grabs' opened at London's Wyndham's Theatre featuring Madonna in the lead role. The first night crowd complained that the singer was lacking in vocal power and strained to hear her lines.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/24/21 at 5:46 am

May 24th 1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/25/21 at 5:20 am

May 25th 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/25/21 at 2:12 pm

May 25th 1895 – Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/26/21 at 8:04 am

May 26th 1897 – Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/31/21 at 12:11 pm

May 31st 1669 – Citing poor eyesight as a reason, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/01/21 at 12:30 pm

June 1st 1981, The first issue of the Heavy Metal magazine Kerrang! was published as a special pull-out by UK weekly music paper Sounds. AC/DC had the front cover plus features on Motorhead, Girlschool and Saxon.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/01/21 at 4:11 pm

June 1st 1938 - First Superman comic book is launched.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/02/21 at 12:54 am

June 2nd 1835 - P. T. Barnum and his circus begins their first tour of the United States.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/21 at 7:12 am

June 10th 1981 - Andy Gibb opened in the role of Frederic in a Los Angeles production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance."

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/21 at 8:45 am

June 10th 1985 - Frank Sinatra was portrayed as a friend of organized crime in a "Doonesbury" comic strip. Over 800 newspapers carried the panel.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/16/21 at 12:57 pm

June 16th 1961 – While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/16/21 at 2:00 pm

June 16th 1981 - The "Chicago Tribune" purchased the Chicago Cubs baseball team from the P.K. Wrigley Chewing Gum Company for $20.5 million.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/21 at 11:18 am

June 18th 1998 - "The Boston Globe" asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.

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Written By: nally on 06/21/21 at 11:26 pm

June 21st 1978 - The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/21 at 2:51 am

June 21st 1978 - The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
I always keep missing the theatre productions of Evita when it is on in London.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/23/21 at 10:50 am

June 23rd 1987 - Madonna was on the cover of "Cosmopolitan" magazine.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/21 at 4:59 am

June 24th 1965 - John Lennon's second book, "A Spaniard in the Works" was published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/21 at 1:10 am

June 25th 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/21 at 8:41 am

June 25th 1848 – A photograph of the June Days uprising becomes the first known instance of photojournalism.

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Written By: nally on 06/26/21 at 11:21 am

June 26th 1997 - J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in United Kingdom.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/21 at 4:32 pm

June 26th 1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/21 at 12:48 pm

June 30th 1960 - In London, the musical "Oliver!" premiered in the West End.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/21 at 1:09 pm

June 30th 2006 - In Las Vegas, the Cirque de Soleil show "LOVE" officially opened at The Mirage Hotel.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/21 at 3:20 pm

June 30th 1905 – Albert Einstein sent the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/21 at 5:38 am

July 1st 1973 - In New York City, "Jesus Christ Superstar" closed after 711 shows on Broadway.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/21 at 9:43 am

July 1st 1965 - John Lennon's "A Spaniard in the Works" was published in the U.S.

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Written By: nally on 07/04/21 at 10:06 am

July 4th 1855 - The first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was published, and it went on to become one of the most important collections of American poetry.

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Written By: nally on 07/04/21 at 10:34 am

July 4th 1862: Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would evolve into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/05/21 at 4:42 am

July 5th 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/07/21 at 5:23 pm

July 7th 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/21 at 12:59 pm

July 15th 1980 - Linda Ronstadt made her dramatic debut in "The Pirates Of Penzance" at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. On her birthday too!

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Written By: nally on 07/29/21 at 9:44 pm

July 29th 1954: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book of of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings—which became a sociocultural phenomenon and was adapted into a series of blockbuster films in the early 2000s—was published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/21 at 3:06 pm

August 1st 1965 – Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.

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Written By: nally on 08/07/21 at 10:53 pm

August 7th 1606, was the possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I.

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Written By: nally on 08/07/21 at 11:25 pm

August 7th 2007: Eclipse, the third novel in the "Twilight Saga" series by Stephanie Meyer, was released with an initial print run of one million copies, and sold more than 150,000 copies in the first 24 hours alone.

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Written By: nally on 08/17/21 at 11:26 pm

August 17th 1945, the novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.

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Written By: nally on 08/20/21 at 11:47 pm

August 20th 1858: Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.

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Written By: nally on 09/25/21 at 12:12 pm

September 25th 1690 - Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

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Written By: nally on 10/16/21 at 11:27 am

October 16th 1847, The novel Jane Eyre is published in London.

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Written By: nally on 12/20/21 at 10:10 pm

December 20th 1812, "Grimm's Fairy Tales" aka "Children's and Household Tales" by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm is first published.

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Written By: nally on 12/21/21 at 11:26 pm

The World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark occurred on December 21st 1879.

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Written By: nally on 12/23/21 at 11:46 pm

December 23rd 1815 - The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.

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Written By: nally on 12/29/21 at 10:50 pm

December 29th 1916: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is first published as a book by American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after its serialization in The Egoist (1914–15).

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Written By: nally on 01/31/22 at 10:25 pm

January 31st 1901: Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters premieres at Moscow Art Theatre in Russia.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/22/22 at 9:06 am

February 22nd 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

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Written By: nally on 03/06/22 at 2:16 pm

March 6th 1943 - Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/07/22 at 8:03 am

March 7th 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/08/22 at 1:21 am

March 8th 1971 – The Daily Sketch newspaper closed after 62 years of publication.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/08/22 at 3:26 am

March 8th 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

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Written By: nally on 03/11/22 at 9:43 pm

March 11th 1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.

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Written By: nally on 03/12/22 at 9:45 pm

65 years ago today, on March 12th 1957, Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat was first published.

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Written By: nally on 03/18/22 at 11:21 pm

March 18th 1791 - Robert Burns' poem “Tam o’ Shanter,” is published in the "Edinburgh Herald".

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Written By: nally on 03/25/22 at 10:58 pm

65 years ago today, on 25 March 1957: United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.

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Written By: nally on 03/30/22 at 11:34 pm

March 30th 1894: George Bernard Shaw's comedy play "Candida" premieres at Theatre Royal, South Shields, England.

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Written By: nally on 04/01/22 at 11:17 pm

April 1st 1724: Jonathan Swift published Drapier's letters.

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Written By: nally on 04/01/22 at 11:18 pm

April 1st 1854 – Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine Household Words.

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Written By: nally on 04/01/22 at 11:18 pm

April 1st 1872 - The first edition of "The Standard" was published.

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Written By: nally on 04/10/22 at 11:06 am

April 10th 1925: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/22 at 2:00 am

April 14th 1931 - The first Highway Code guide was published in Great Britain.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/22 at 4:19 pm

April 15th 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

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Written By: nally on 04/18/22 at 11:20 pm

April 18th 1857: The Spirits Book by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/22 at 6:13 am

April 25th 1968 - "Half a Sixpence" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 512 performances

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Written By: nally on 04/29/22 at 11:53 pm

170 years ago today, on April 29th 1852: Roget's Thesaurus, created by Peter Roget, was released to the public.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/22 at 12:04 pm

May 3rd 1960 – The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/22 at 8:29 am

May 4th 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/22 at 11:53 am

May 4th 1896 - The first issue of the 'Daily Mail' newspaper was published

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Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 05/04/22 at 12:38 pm

May 4th 1896 - The first issue of the 'Daily Mail' newspaper was published


"It's a dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand
His son is working for the Daily Mail
It's a steady job
But he wants to be a paperback writer
Paperback writer"
-Beatles

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/22 at 1:17 pm

May 4th 1896 - The first issue of the 'Daily Mail' newspaper was published

"It's a dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand
His son is working for the Daily Mail
It's a steady job
But he wants to be a paperback writer
Paperback writer"
-Beatles
"I read the news today, oh boy" - The Beatles

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Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 05/04/22 at 1:26 pm

"I read the news today, oh boy" - The Beatles


"Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away"
-Beatles

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/22 at 2:00 pm

"Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away"
-Beatles
The news people said, "Say what you doing in bed?"
I said, "We're only trying to get us some peace" - The Beatles

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/22 at 11:42 am

May 5th 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) had its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

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Written By: nally on 05/06/22 at 10:43 pm

May 6th 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

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Written By: nally on 05/07/22 at 3:20 pm

May 7th 1846 - The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Written By: nally on 05/08/22 at 5:01 pm

May 8th 1899 - The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.

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Written By: nally on 05/08/22 at 10:45 pm

Sixty years ago today, on May 8, 1962: Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened on Broadway, at the Alvin Theatre, and then transferred to the Mark Hellinger Theatre and the Majestic Theatre, where the show closed two years later, after 964 performances.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/10/22 at 12:41 pm

May 10th 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.

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Written By: nally on 05/12/22 at 10:46 pm

Forty years ago today, on May 12th 1982, The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to American author John Updike for his novel, Rabbit Is Rich.

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Written By: nally on 05/14/22 at 1:32 am

May 13th 1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. It later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.

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Written By: nally on 05/15/22 at 10:42 pm

May 15th 1711 ~ Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is published anonymously.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/22 at 8:30 am

May 16th 1946 - "Annie Get Your Gun" opened on Broadway.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/17/22 at 5:14 am

May 17th 1971 - The musical "Godspell" opened in New York City and ran for 2,124 performances.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/23/22 at 7:00 am

May 23rd 2002 - 'Up For Grabs' opened at London's Wyndham's Theatre featuring Madonna in the lead role. The first night crowd complained that the singer was lacking in vocal power and strained to hear her lines.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/25/22 at 1:31 am

May 25th 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.

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Written By: nally on 05/28/22 at 11:04 am

28 May 1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

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Written By: nally on 05/30/22 at 1:09 pm

May 30th 1631 - The first French newspaper, Gazette de France, was published.

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Written By: nally on 05/31/22 at 8:15 pm

May 31st 1669: Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.

Apparently his goal was to keep a diary for the entire 1660s calendar decade, but because his eyesight was diminishing, he stopped seven months short.

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Written By: nally on 06/01/22 at 11:23 pm

June 1st 1857: Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, a collection of French poetry, is published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/07/22 at 7:39 am

June 7th 1970 - Rock music was performed for the first time at "The Met", New York's Metropolitan Opera House, when The Who performed their rock opera, Tommy.

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Written By: nally on 06/19/22 at 2:20 pm

19 June 1978 – Garfield’s first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/21/22 at 12:49 pm

June 21st 1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opened at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/22 at 2:52 pm

June 25th 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.

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Written By: nally on 06/26/22 at 1:14 pm

Twenty-five years ago today, on June 26th 1997: J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter fantasy novel series, is released.

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Written By: nally on 06/28/22 at 10:11 pm

June 28th 1841 - The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.


I suppose this could also go in the Classical Music History thread.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/22 at 6:58 am

June 29th 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/22 at 3:51 pm

June 29th 1987 – Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.

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Written By: nally on 07/01/22 at 11:51 pm

July 1st 1950 - Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill's "Lost in the Stars", based on Alan Paton's novel "Cry the Beloved Country", closes at Music Box Theater, NYC, after 281 performances.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/22 at 2:55 pm

July 3rd 1886 – The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

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Written By: nally on 07/11/22 at 9:47 pm

July 11th 1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.

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Written By: nally on 07/12/22 at 7:56 pm

July 12th 1493 – Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.

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Written By: nally on 07/12/22 at 8:04 pm

July 12th 1580 – The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.

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Written By: nally on 07/14/22 at 8:38 pm

Fifteen years ago today, on July 14th 2007... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the 7th and final novel in the Harry Potter book series, was released.

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Written By: nally on 07/16/22 at 11:27 am

July 16th 1951 - J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

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Written By: nally on 08/01/22 at 8:28 pm

August 1st 1965: Frank Herbert's novel, Dune, was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.

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Written By: nally on 08/03/22 at 11:06 pm

August 3rd 1778 – The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.

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Written By: nally on 08/04/22 at 7:59 pm

August 4th 1821 - The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper. (Makes sense, as that date fell on a Saturday.)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/22 at 4:16 pm

August 5th 1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.

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Written By: nally on 08/07/22 at 1:04 pm

August 7th 1606, was the possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I.

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Written By: nally on 08/09/22 at 11:05 pm

August 9th 1854 - The book Walden was published by Henry David Thoreau.

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Written By: nally on 08/17/22 at 8:05 pm

August 17th 1945 – The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.

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Written By: nally on 08/18/22 at 8:01 pm

August 18th 1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

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Written By: nally on 08/20/22 at 10:58 am

August 20th 1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/27/22 at 3:00 pm

August 27th 1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/22 at 3:06 am

August 28th 1964 - The Beatles appeared on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.

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Written By: nally on 08/30/22 at 11:51 pm

August 30th 1806 - New York City's second daily newspaper, the Daily Advertiser, was published for the final time.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/22 at 4:00 pm

September 1st 1933 - H.G Wells published his science fiction novel 'The Shape of the Things to Come'

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Written By: nally on 09/05/22 at 12:16 am

September 4th 1934 - Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/07/22 at 3:32 pm

September 7th 1907 - Oscar Hammerstein announced a plan for five opera houses in New York.

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Written By: nally on 09/10/22 at 10:53 pm

September 10th 2000: The musical Cats ended an almost-18-year run on Broadway.

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Written By: nally on 09/16/22 at 11:26 pm

September 16th 1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York.

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Written By: nally on 09/17/22 at 12:05 am

September 16th 1966 - The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.

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Written By: nally on 09/17/22 at 10:51 am

September 17th 1958 - Tintin in Tibet, the twentieth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and which he regarded as his favourite in the series, began serialisation.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/22 at 1:59 am

September 26th 1957 – West Side Story, a musical based loosely on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that was written by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, and produced and directed by Jerome Robbins, made its debut on Broadway.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/22 at 1:30 am

September 27th 1968 - The stage musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof's collapsing in July 1973.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/22 at 4:33 pm

September 27th 1962 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Written By: nally on 10/01/22 at 5:29 pm

October 1st 1861 – Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day.

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Written By: nally on 10/01/22 at 6:14 pm

October 1st, 1974: Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was released. (Narrator John Larroquette later became famous as Dan Fielding on Night Court.) The film spawned several sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, and a direct sequel.

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Written By: nally on 10/02/22 at 3:37 pm

120 years ago today, on October 2nd 1902: The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published for the first time.

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Written By: nally on 10/02/22 at 6:51 pm

October 2nd 1950 - Peanuts, the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/22 at 6:59 am

October 3rd 1991 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Written By: nally on 10/08/22 at 1:36 pm

Forty years ago today, on October 8th 1982 – After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before eventually closing on September 10, 2000.

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Written By: nally on 10/08/22 at 9:42 pm

October 8th 1952 - Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette was published for the first time.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/22 at 1:14 pm

October 12th 1971 - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Jesus Christ Superstar" debuted on Broadway.

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Written By: nally on 10/15/22 at 4:18 pm

The original Broadway production of the musical The Cat and the Fiddle opened on October 15, 1931, and ran for 395 performances - a long run for the time period.

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Written By: nally on 10/15/22 at 11:37 pm

October 15th 1888 - German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche decides to write his autobiography "Ecce Homo" on his 44th birthday.

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Written By: nally on 10/15/22 at 11:44 pm

85 years ago today, on October 15th 1937 - The novel To Have And Have Not by Ernest Hemingway was published.

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Written By: nally on 10/15/22 at 11:46 pm

70 years ago today, on October 15th 1952, the children's novel Charlotte's Web by E.B. White was published.

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Written By: nally on 10/16/22 at 11:09 pm

October 16th 1950 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published; this would be the first book written in the "Chronicles of Narnia" series.

A book published later - The Magician's Nephew - was set before the events of LWW.

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Written By: nally on 10/16/22 at 11:11 pm

October 16th 1847, The novel Jane Eyre is published in London.

This date may or may not be actually correct; some sources indicate it was actually published two or three days later.

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Written By: nally on 10/20/22 at 11:49 pm

October 20th 1973 - The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.

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Written By: nally on 10/21/22 at 11:16 pm

October 21st 1858 - Jacques Offenbach's operetta " Orpheus in the Underworld" (Orphée aux Enfers) premieres in Paris, includes "Infernal Galop" (can-can tune).

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Written By: nally on 10/21/22 at 11:24 pm

October 21st 1949 - Aldous Huxley (writer of Brave New World) writes to congratulate George Orwell on his new novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Written By: nally on 10/22/22 at 12:03 pm

October 22nd 1987 – John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered.

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Written By: nally on 10/22/22 at 4:06 pm

October 22nd 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.

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Written By: nally on 10/22/22 at 4:18 pm

October 22nd 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor.

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Written By: nally on 10/22/22 at 11:16 pm

October 22nd 1959, the musical Take Me Along opened on Broadway.

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Written By: nally on 10/24/22 at 11:48 pm

October 24th 1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.

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Written By: nally on 10/25/22 at 11:25 pm

Sixty years ago today, on October 25th 1962: American author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/27/22 at 3:26 pm

October 27th 1975 - Bruce Springsteen was simultaneously on the cover of "Time" and "Newsweek." This was the first time this happened for a rock star.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/28/22 at 8:55 am

October 28th 1726 – The novel "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is published.

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Written By: nally on 11/05/22 at 10:50 am

November 5th 1499 – The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.

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Written By: nally on 11/05/22 at 10:58 am

November 5th 1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/22 at 2:26 pm

November 7th 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/09/22 at 12:49 am

November 9th 1967 - First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/22 at 8:01 am

November 10th 1939 – Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Written By: nally on 11/13/22 at 6:08 pm

45 years ago today, on November 13th 1977, the comic strip Li'l Abner terminated its 43-year run in newspapers.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/22 at 8:09 am

November 21st 1934 - The Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes" opened.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/22 at 12:39 pm

November 23rd 1977 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 perfs

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Written By: nally on 12/03/22 at 11:29 pm

December 3rd 1960 – The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It would eventually have ties to then-President-elect John F. Kennedy after he took office a month later.

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Written By: nally on 12/04/22 at 10:18 am

December 4th 1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

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Written By: nally on 12/14/22 at 11:46 pm

December 14th 1999 - Charles M. Schulz announced he would be terminating his "Peanuts" comic strip series. (The last original "Peanuts" strip was published two months later, on February 13, 2000 - the day after his death.) He had been ill with a number of ailments that were impairing his vision.

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Written By: nally on 12/17/22 at 3:18 pm

The first issue of Vogue was published 130 years ago today, on this date in 1892.

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Written By: nally on 12/18/22 at 11:27 pm

December 18th 1985: Jerry's Girls - a musical revue based on the songs of composer/lyricist Jerry Herman - premiered on Broadway, directed by Alford and choreographed by Wayne Cilento at the St. James Theatre, where it would run for 141 performances and 14 previews.

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Written By: nally on 12/19/22 at 8:04 pm

December 19th 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".

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Written By: nally on 12/19/22 at 10:34 pm

19 December 1881. The four-act opera Herodiade - by Jules Massenet - was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.

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Written By: nally on 12/19/22 at 10:58 pm

December 19th 1843 - Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol was published.

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Written By: nally on 12/20/22 at 10:18 pm

Fifty years ago today, on December 20th 1972: Neil Simon's play The Sunshine Boys was first performed, at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway.

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Written By: nally on 12/23/22 at 7:41 pm

December 23rd 1815 – The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.

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Written By: nally on 12/24/22 at 9:51 pm

24 December 1871 – The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.

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Written By: nally on 12/27/22 at 7:13 pm

December 27th 1845 – Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the previous July, journalist John L. O'Sullivan argued in his newspaper New York Morning News that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country.
(Yes, I know this also goes under general history.)

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Written By: nally on 12/27/22 at 9:35 pm

December 27th 1927 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

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Written By: nally on 12/29/22 at 11:18 pm

December 29th 1916: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - the first novel by James Joyce - is first published as a book by American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after its serialization in The Egoist (1914–15).

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Written By: nally on 01/02/23 at 10:07 pm

January 2nd (possibly) in 1814: Lord Byron writes his semi-autobiographical tale in verse The Corsair while snowed up at Newstead Abbey in England with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. (It would be published 30 days later.)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/04/23 at 6:01 am

January 4th 1936 - The first pop music chart based on national sales was published by "Billboard" magazine.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/23 at 12:33 am

January 5th 1946 - "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City NY for 417 performances

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/05/23 at 1:54 pm

January 5th 1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Written By: nally on 01/08/23 at 12:53 pm

January 8th 1735: The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

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Written By: nally on 01/08/23 at 11:15 pm

January 8th 1976 - The comic strip Jon, written by 30-year-old cartoonist Jim Davis, made its debut as a local feature in the Pendleton Times, a weekly newspaper in the small town of Pendleton, Indiana, beginning what would become one of the most popular comic strips in the world. Initially, the comic focused on "Jon Arbuckle", a young man who has a pet cat named "Garfield". The strip would be accepted by United Feature Syndicate and, with a change of title and a shift in focus from the cat's owner to the cat itself, would eventually debut as Garfield on June 16, 1978.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/10/23 at 1:28 pm

January 10th 1947 - The musical "Finian’s Rainbow" opened in New York City and ran for 725 performances. The music was written by Burton Lane and the lyrics were written by E.Y. Harburg.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/11/23 at 7:20 am

January 11th 1968 - The Daily Mirror of London reported that Jimi Hendrix had moved into the London townhouse where George Frederick Handel was believed to have composed "Water Music" and "Messiah."

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Written By: nally on 01/13/23 at 11:14 pm

January 13th 1673 - Jean Racine's play Mithridate premiered in Paris.

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Written By: nally on 01/13/23 at 11:19 pm

January 13th 1882: Richard Wagner completed his opera Parsifal.

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Written By: nally on 01/13/23 at 11:26 pm

January 13th 1898: Emile Zola publishes his open letter "J'accuse" accusing the French government of framing Alfred Dreyfus for sabotage.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/15/23 at 6:24 pm

January 15th 1876 – The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/16/23 at 7:14 am

January 16th 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid, Spain.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/17/23 at 8:36 am

January 17th 1967 - The Daily Mail ran the story about a local council survey finding 4,000 holes in the road in Lancashire inspiring John Lennon's contribution to The Beatles song 'A Day In The Life'.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/17/23 at 11:30 am

January 17th 1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/18/23 at 2:43 am

January 18th 1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.

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Written By: nally on 01/21/23 at 9:55 am

January 21st 1789 – The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/23 at 5:18 am

January 26th 1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre in New York.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/23 at 7:16 am

January 26th 1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.

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Written By: nally on 01/29/23 at 12:17 pm

January 29th 1845 – "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, in this case Edgar Allan Poe.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/02/23 at 7:28 am

February 2nd 1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/02/23 at 1:07 pm

February 2nd 1870 – The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi, is published first time in several thin booklets.

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Written By: nally on 02/05/23 at 2:10 pm

110 years ago today, on February 5th 1913 – Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.

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Written By: nally on 02/05/23 at 6:46 pm

101 years ago today, on February 5th 1922 - Reader's Digest magazine is first published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/23 at 3:00 pm

February 7th 1898 – Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…!

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Written By: nally on 02/13/23 at 9:44 pm

February 13th 1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.

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Written By: nally on 02/13/23 at 11:13 pm

February 13th 1741 - The American Magazine, the first magazine in the U.S., was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Written By: nally on 02/13/23 at 11:15 pm

On Sunday February 13th 2000, the final comic strip of the Peanuts series appeared in newspapers. The author of Peanuts, Charles Schulz, had passed away the previous day.

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Written By: nally on 02/18/23 at 2:32 pm

February 18th 1885 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.

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Written By: nally on 02/19/23 at 10:05 pm

Sixty years ago today, on February 19th 1963, The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.

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Written By: nally on 02/22/23 at 12:10 am

February 21st 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/07/23 at 2:09 am

1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.

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Written By: nally on 03/14/23 at 11:06 pm

March 14th 1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/23 at 2:46 am

March 15th 1956 – My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/23 at 8:34 am

March 16th 1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/23 at 6:25 am

March 20th 1885 - Yiddish theater opens in NY with a Goldfaden operetta

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/23 at 1:28 pm

March 20th 1916 – Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/23 at 2:39 pm

March 20th 1954 - "The King and I" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/23 at 6:48 pm

March 20th 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/22/23 at 4:12 am

March 22nd 1956 - Sammy Davis, Jr. starred in the play, "Mr. Wonderful," in New York City.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/22/23 at 2:42 pm

March 22nd 1962 - Barbra Streisand opened in the Broadway show "I Can Get it For You Wholesale."

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/23/23 at 9:00 am

March 23rd 1964 - John Lennon's book of verse and rhyme 'In His Own Write' was published in the UK. Some of the content was first published in Lennon's 'Beachcomber' column in Mersey Beat.

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Written By: nally on 03/25/23 at 10:14 am

March 25th 1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. :o

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/29/23 at 4:14 am

March 29th 1871 – Royal Albert Hall in London was opened by Queen Victoria.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/29/23 at 9:22 am

March 29th 1951 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The King and I", based on the novel "Anna and the King of Siam", opened at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 1,246 performances, winning 5 Tony Awards; Star Yul Brynner would lead the cast of the 1956 film version, and play the role over 4,200 times.

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Written By: nally on 04/03/23 at 11:01 pm

April 3rd 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

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Written By: nally on 04/05/23 at 11:25 pm

April 5th 1892 - In New York, the Ithaca Daily Journal published an ad introducing a new 10 cent Ice Cream Specialty called a Cherry Sunday.

However, this date was a Tuesday.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/23 at 8:29 am

April 9th 1928 - Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/23 at 5:38 am

April 14th 1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the following day.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/23 at 5:56 am

April 14th 1970 - "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/23 at 4:15 pm

April 15th 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/23 at 7:03 am

April 24th 1950 – Leonard Bernstein's musical "Peter Pan", starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 320 performances.

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Written By: nally on 04/26/23 at 11:19 pm

April 26th 1989 – People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.

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Written By: nally on 04/29/23 at 11:20 am

April 29th 1968 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

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Written By: nally on 04/29/23 at 4:03 pm

April 29th 1852, The first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus was published.

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Written By: nally on 04/30/23 at 2:49 pm

April 30th 1905 – Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").

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Written By: nally on 05/01/23 at 11:16 pm

The publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, occurred on May 1st 1753.

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Written By: nally on 05/02/23 at 10:37 pm

May 2nd 2012 – A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.

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Written By: nally on 05/02/23 at 11:20 pm

May 2nd 1885, the magazine Good Housekeeping begins publication.

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Written By: nally on 05/03/23 at 11:02 pm

May 3rd 1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Written By: nally on 05/04/23 at 10:03 pm

May 4th 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Old Man and the Sea.

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Written By: nally on 05/05/23 at 10:03 pm

May 5th 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

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Written By: nally on 05/05/23 at 10:54 pm

May 5th 1821 – The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published.

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Written By: nally on 05/06/23 at 9:55 am

May 6th 1901 – The first issue of Gorkhapatra, the oldest still running state-owned Nepali newspaper, was published.

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Written By: nally on 05/06/23 at 3:22 pm

May 6th 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

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Written By: nally on 05/06/23 at 7:26 pm

May 6th 1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.

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Written By: nally on 05/06/23 at 7:28 pm

Forty years ago today, on May 6th 1983, The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by experts.

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Written By: nally on 05/07/23 at 10:47 pm

May 7th 1846 - The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Written By: nally on 05/08/23 at 10:10 pm

May 8th 1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.

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Written By: nally on 05/09/23 at 10:55 pm

May 9th 1978 - The musical revue of Ain't Misbehavin' opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre, starring Nell Carter and a very young Irene Cara.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/10/23 at 1:47 pm

May 10th 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.

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Written By: nally on 05/28/23 at 11:37 pm

May 28, 1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

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Written By: nally on 05/29/23 at 12:08 pm

May 29th 1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/02/23 at 10:20 am

June 2nd 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/23 at 12:22 pm

June 4th 1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.

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