Today's reading: "A Postcard from the Volcano" by Wallace Stevens, fromThe Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Birthday of Mohandas Ganhdi, Groucho Marx, and Wallace Stevens.
Thurgood Marshall sworn in on this day in 1967.
Character from Around the World in 80 Days made famous in 1872.
Today's reading:Psalm 24, from the Bible.
Birthday of British parasitologist Patrick Manson, writer and critic Gore Vidal, Thomas Wolfe, James Herriott, cartoonist and Mad magazine founder Harvey Kurtzman.
St. Francis of Assisi died on this day in 1226.
First fax transmitted in 1922.
Today's reading: "A Quiet Place" by Louis Jenkins, from Nice Fish, published by Holy Cow Press.
Birthday of children's author Edward Stratemeyer, Frederick Remington, Guys and Dolls playwright Damon Runyon, and Buster Keaton.
Feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.
Julian calendar changed to Gregorian in 1582.
First run of the Orient Express in 1883.
First commercial jet flight across Atlantic in 1958.
Russia's Sputnik I became the first earth satellite in orbit in 1957.
Today's reading: "In the Attic" by Jeffrey Harrison, from The Singing Underneath, published by E. P. Dutton.
Birthday of opera singer Jenny Lind.
National German-American Day, Arkansas State Fair, Riley Festival in Greenfield, Indiana in honor of poet James Whitcomb Riley, Ivy Day in Ireland to commemorate death of John Stewart Parnell.
Surrender of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians on this day in 1877.
Bank robbing Dalton Brothers killed on this day in 1892.
Today's reading: "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis", a song by Andrew B. Sterling.
William Tyndale, British translator of the Bible, killed in 1536.
Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre published on this day in 1847.
American Library Association established in 1876.
First talking movie, The Jazz Singer, opened in 1927.
Today's reading: "Miracle of Bubbles" by Barbara Goldberg, from Cautionary Tales, published by Dryad Press.
Birthday of Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, Reverend Desmond Tutu, and poet and dramatist Imamu Amiri.
Edgar Allan Poe died on this day in 1849.
Many festivals including the Apple Butter Festival in Burton, Ohio; the Oyster Festival in Chincoteague Island, Virginia; the Chowder Festival in Mystic, Connecticut; the Fells Point Festival in Baltimore; Milton, New Hampshire's Harvest Days; a High School Band Parade in Grand Island, Nebraska; and the Rockport Sea Fare in Rockport, Texas.
Today's reading: "Homecoming" by Maxine Kumin, from Up Country, published by Harper and Row.
Birthday of author Edgar Saltus, novelist Meyer Levin, Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Sukkot, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, begins.
Hunter's moon, full moon following Harvest Moon.
Anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of
1871.
First town government organized in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1633.
Forest fire in northern Wisconsin in 1871.
Dow Jones & Co. begins computing stock trends in 1897.
Jerry Lee Lewis records Great Balls of Fire in 1957.
