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#1541 · October 17, 2024, 1:55 pm
#RIP #OTD 1910 author (Mother's Day Proclamation), poet, lyricist ("Battle Hymn of the Republic"),abolitionist,women's suffragist, Julia Ward Howe died; pneumonia; her Portsmouth, Rhode Island home, Oak Glen aged 91. Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/17/day
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#1542 · October 19, 2024, 1:56 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1745, satirist (Gulliver's Travels), essayist, poet, cleric and Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Jonathan Swift died in Dublin, Ireland at the age of 77. St. Patrick’s Cathedral thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/19/day
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#1543 · October 19, 2024, 1:57 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1950, lyrical poet ("Ballad of the Harp-Weaver", "First Fig", "Renascence"), playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay died at her home , Steepletop near Austerlitz, New York, after falling down her stairs, at the age of 58. Steepletop Cemetery thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/19/day
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#1544 · October 20, 2024, 1:57 pm
20 October 1822. The 1st edition of the Sunday Times was published. There were no photographs just five columns of densely spaced type. At the time, It had no link with The Times. The 1st editorial promised to evoke a spirit of “When the press was free and honest.”
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#1545 · October 20, 2024, 1:58 pm
20 October 1960. The 6-day trial of Penguin Books began. It was a public prosecution brought under the Obscene Publications Act, under which the company was charged with publishing “obscene material” in the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence.
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#1546 · October 21, 2024, 1:55 pm
21 October 1940. Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, was published. It describes the brutality of the Spanish Civil War, and is told through the thoughts and experiences of Robert Jordan. It draws on Hemingway’s own experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
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#1547 · October 21, 2024, 1:55 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1969, novelist (On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, Desolation Angels) poet Jack Kerouac died at St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida; internal hemorrhage caused by cirrhosis, aged 47. Edson Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/21/day
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#1548 · October 22, 2024, 1:37 pm
22 October 1964. French novelist and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. On the next day, he announced that he was refusing the prize, but was told the award was irrevocable and would still be awarded to him in absentia.
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#1549 · October 22, 2024, 1:38 pm
22 October 1995. English novelist Kingsley Amis died (aged 73). His best known novel was Lucky Jim, a biting satire of life at a British university. In 2008, The Times ranked him 9th in its list of the 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945. His son was novelist Martin Amis.
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#1550 · October 23, 2024, 1:12 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1872 poet (Émaux et Camées), dramatist, novelist, short story writer ("La Morte amoureuse") journalist, art critic, literary critic, Théophile Gautier died at the age of 61 in Paris from cardiac disease. Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/23/day
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#1551 · October 23, 2024, 1:13 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1939, author (Riders of the Purple Sage) Zane Grey died of heart failure at the age of 67, at his home in Altadena, California. Union Cemetery in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/23/day
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#1552 · October 23, 2024, 1:13 pm
23 October 1958. Russian novelist Boris Pasternak, the author of Dr. Zhivago, was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature. He was forced by the Soviet government to reject the honour. His family were finally able to accept it in his name in 1988.
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#1553 · October 25, 2024, 1:21 pm
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#1554 · October 25, 2024, 1:22 pm
25 October 1961. The 1st edition of the satirical and current affairs news magazine, Private Eye, was published. It became well known for its criticism and lampooning of public figures, and for its in-depth investigative journalism.
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#1555 · October 25, 2024, 1:23 pm
25 October 2015. Leading historian of the Holocaust David Cesarani died (aged 58). He died shortly after completing a huge general history of the Holocaust, entitled, The Final Solution.
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#1556 · October 25, 2024, 1:24 pm
25 October 2015. Leading historian Lisa Jardine died (aged 71). She was a polymath, fluent in 5 different languages and as comfortable with the sciences as she was with the humanities. Her father was philosopher and mathematician, Jacob Bronowski.
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#1557 · October 26, 2024, 1:32 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1902 writer, activist, leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S., Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in New York City from heart failure 18 years before approval of the 19th Amendment, aged 86. Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/26/day
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#1558 · October 28, 2024, 1:46 pm
28 October 1704. John Locke, known as the “Father of Classical Liberalism”, died (aged 72). He’s considered one of the first of the major British empiricists. His writings influenced Voltaire, Rousseau, and the United States Declaration of Independence.
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#1559 · October 28, 2024, 1:47 pm
28 October 1726. The classic satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by the Irish writer Jonathan Swift was published. The book includes 4 parts which tell the story of the adventurous voyage of Lemuel Gulliver to 4 different worlds.
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#1560 · October 28, 2024, 1:48 pm
#RIP #OTD in 1998, poet (Birthday Letters), husband of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes died from a heart attack while undergoing treatment for colon cancer in Southwark, London, aged 68. Cremated remains scattered in Dartmoor, close to the source of the River Taw thefinalfootprint.com/2024/10/28/day
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