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Image of Thoreau's cabin from the title
page of the first edition of Walden |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Claude Bernard (1813; died February 10, 1878) French physiologist;
Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
Henry David Thoreau (1817; died May 6, 1862) American writer;
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers;
Civil Disobedience;
Walden;
Walking
Pablo Neruda (1904; died September 23, 1973) Chilean poet known for
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair; Nobel Prize for Literature (1971)
Donald E. Westlake (1933; died December 31, 2008) American author of crime stories; the
Parker and
John Dortmunder series;
The Hunter;
The Grifters;
The Stepfather
Died on this day:
Desiderius Erasmus (1536; born October 27, 1466) Dutch scholar;
The Praise of Folly
Alexander Hamilton (1804; born January 11, 1755 or 1757) American statesman; co-author of
The Federalist Papers
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