8 June 1949. George Orwell’s futuristic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published in the UK. It depicts a totalitarian tyranny ruled by “Big Brother”, and supported by a secret police using mass surveillance. More broadly, Orwell shows how facts are manipulated by governments. pic.twitter.com/jkxj7rTJ1u

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 8, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 2018, chef, author (Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly), travel documentarian (No Reservations), Anthony Bourdain died in his room at Le Chambard hotel in Kaysersberg near Colmar, France, at the age of 61. Cremation https://t.co/dCDAnpsW2S pic.twitter.com/FSbABxRWwa

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 8, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1870, novelist (A Tale of Two Cities) Charles Dickens died at his country home, Gads Hill Place, in Higham, Kent, England after a stroke at the age of 58. Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey @wabbey https://t.co/oDCsiw39M8 pic.twitter.com/BqLF5rPkDR

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 9, 2023

10 June 1911. Terence Rattigan was born in London. A theme of his plays is upper-middle-class fustration and anxiety and include: The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables and Man and Boy. In 1990, the British Library acquired Rattigan’s papers. pic.twitter.com/H82pqupxk7

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 10, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1923 French naval officer, writer of novels (Le Mariage de Loti, the opera Lakmé; Madame Chrysanthème, the opera Madama Butterfly) Pierre Loti died in Hendaye, France, aged 73. Interred on the island of Oléron, France with a state funeral https://t.co/nbeJwinC1y pic.twitter.com/mX2P1gSGXo

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 10, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1988, Western novelist (Hondo, Crossfire Trail, Conagher, The Quick and the Dead, The Shadow Riders, The Sacketts) Louis L’Amour died; lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles aged 80. Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery Glendale, California https://t.co/nbeJwinC1y pic.twitter.com/Fx3OF1C0dz

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 10, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1878, poet ("Thanatopsis"), journalist, William Cullen Bryant died; complications from a fall suffered after participating in a Central Park ceremony for Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini, aged 83. Roslyn Cemetery, Roslyn, Long Island, New York https://t.co/67XPxxYLWE pic.twitter.com/Uzel3ugh94

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 12, 2023

12 June 1942. Anne Frank received a diary as a present for her 13th birthday. It was posthumously published as The Diary of a Young Girl. It’s one of the world’s best known diaries, and has been the basis for several plays and films. pic.twitter.com/EWPljyI9Fw

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 12, 2023

13 June 1865. William Butler (“WB”) Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was the first Irish person to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He is commemorated in Sligo town by a statue, created in 1989 by the sculptor, Rowan Gillespie. pic.twitter.com/6esk9uosMf

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 13, 2023

Cormac McCarthy, the author whose raggedly ornate early novels about misfits and grotesques gave way to the lush taciturnity of “All the Pretty Horses” and the apocalyptic minimalism of “The Road,” has died at 89. https://t.co/6u4UwmoYqN

— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) June 13, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1837, Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist, Giacomo Leopardi died in Naples at the age of 38 during the cholera epidemic. Parco Virgiliano, Naples https://t.co/ujJyTwts9z pic.twitter.com/A5S448SuAl

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 14, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1968 author, poet (Acque e terre, Oboe sommerso, Ed è subito sera), 1959 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Salvatore Quasimodo died from a cerebral hemorrhage in a hospital in Naples at the age of 66. Cimitero Monumentale in Milan https://t.co/ujJyTwts9z pic.twitter.com/MOrsZS37ZS

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 14, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1986, short-story writer (Ficciones, El Aleph), essayist, poet and translator, Jorge Luis Borges died of liver cancer in Geneva at the age of 86. Cimetière de Rois, Plainpalais, Geneva https://t.co/ujJyTwts9z pic.twitter.com/Ojc79UjNUa

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 14, 2023

16 June 1904. The classic and complex novel, Ulysses, by the Irish writer, James Joyce, chronicles the appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of one day: 16 June 1904. Joyce fans always celebrate this day as Bloomsday. pic.twitter.com/wE6W2IYuaY

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 16, 2023

16 June 1952. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl (translated into English), was published in the USA. It documents the teenager’s life in hiding in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944, and became a huge worldwide best seller. pic.twitter.com/5XlCBXxwDP

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 16, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 2012 construction worker turned writer Rodney King died in his swimming pool at his home in Rialto, California, from an accidental drowning at the age of 47. Forest Lawn Memorial Park Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles https://t.co/Be4AEDsHVM pic.twitter.com/YjXu6dHFGH

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 17, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1982, artist, illustrator, journalist, writer (Ladies Almanack, Ryder, Nightwood) Djuna Barnes died in her apartment at Patchin Place, Greenwich Village, aged 90. Cremation. Cremated remains scattered in Greewich Village https://t.co/e0aRoQlfCd pic.twitter.com/4IFSbqHTH0

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 18, 2023

#RIP #OTD in 1937, author, dramatist (Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up), J. M. Barrie died of pneumonia in London at the age of 77. Barrie and Ogilivie family plot in Kirriemuir Cemetery, Kirriemuir, Scotland https://t.co/CuJow5cPVB pic.twitter.com/aBg0JNzCwh

— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) June 19, 2023

19 June 1947. Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India. His fiction is set in India, combining magical realism with historical fiction. His best known novel is, The Satanic Verses, which led to a global Muslim protests in 1988. In 2022, he survived an assassination attempt. pic.twitter.com/Xt5H9dKDwK

— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 19, 2023