On This Day

What happened on this day in literary history?

Not a day goes by without something interesting happening in the world of books and writers. Here are some of the events that Susannah thinks are important.

Yesterday
Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone 26 June 1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is first published. read more ...
Today
Happy Birthday Song 27 June 1893: Happy Birthday to You is published. read more ...
Tomorrow
Jean-Jacques Rousseau & Discourse on Inequality, 1755 28 June 1712: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born. read more ...
What happened this month?
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        119521952The Old Man and the Sea is first published 219221922Henry Lawson dies 318601860Charles Dickens has a bonfire
419241924Children’s writer Joan Aiken is born 519581958Doctor Zhivago first published in English 619251925Andrea Camilleri is born 719621962Karen Blixen dies 814741474Italian poet and playwright Ludovico Ariosto is born 918281828Leo Tolstoy is born 1017971797Mary Wollstonecraft dies
1119421942First Famous Five book published 1219601960Ring of Bright Water is first published 1319161916Roald Dahl is born 1413211321Dante Alighieri dies 1519151915Jeeves and Wooster appear together for the first time 1619931993Australian poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal dies 1718971897What Maisie Knew by Henry James is published
1817091709Samuel Johnson is born 1919111911William Golding is born 2018631863Jacob Grimm dies 2119371937The Hobbit first published 2218881888First issue of National Geographic Magazine is published 2318901890Château d’If opened to the public 18891889Wilkie Collins dies 2418961896F. Scott Fitzgerald is born
2519301930Children’s author Shel Silverstein is born 2618881888T.S. Eliot is born 2718711871Grazia Deledda is born 2818911891Herman Melville dies 2918101810Elizabeth Gaskell is born 3018681868First volume of Little Women is published