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5 Jan
LIT BITS V2 #6

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
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Excerpted-from: LITERARY CALENDAR Wednesday, January 6 1999 Vol 02 : Num 006
Forwarded-by: ptervin@pent.yasuda-u.ac.jp
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/

Today is Wednesday, 6 January 1999; on this day,

145 years ago (1854),

	William (or Thomas) Sherlock Scott Holmes is born at the farmstead
   of Mycroft, near Sigerside, in the North Riding of Yorkshire.  He will
   always have a pipe in hand, wear a deerstalker cap, play the violin, and
   use cocaine when bored.  He lives at 221B Baker Street.

121 years ago (1878),

	Carl Sandburg is born in Galesburg, Illinois.  When his biography
   of Abraham Lincoln wins the 1939 Pulitzer Prize, Edmund Wilson will
   comment: "the cruellest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was
   shot by Booth has been to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg."

116 years ago (1883),

	Poet Kahlil Gibran (_The Prophet_) is born in Bisharri, Lebanon.

68 years ago (1931),

	E. L. Doctorow (_Ragtime_) is born in New York City.

© 1999 Peter Langston