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20 Oct
LIT BITS CALENDAR V1 #252

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Excerpted-from: LITERARY CALENDAR Wednesday, October 21 1998 Vol 01 : Num 252

Today is Wednesday, 21 October 1998; on this day,

442 years ago (1556),

	Pietro Aretino (_The Courtesan_) dies at 64 in Venice, whence he
   was almost expelled in 1538 for bestiality.

69 years ago (1929),

	Science fiction and fantasy novelist Ursula LeGuin, is born in
   Berkeley, California; her work will win a wide audience.

29 years ago (1969),

	Jack Kerouac (_On the Road_) dies, aged 47, of abdominal bleeding
   caused by drinking, in a St. Petersburg, Florida, hospital.

© 1998 Peter Langston