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Writers Almanac January 21 ~ Marie Smith Jones, chief of
Writers Almanac January 21 ~ Marie Smith Jones, chief of Alaska’s Eyak people, died on this date in 2008. Jones was the last fluent native speaker o...

Writers Almanac January 20 ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the
Writers Almanac January 20 ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first president to take the oath of office on January 20, back in 1937. Originally, ...

Writers Almanac December 28 ~ Today in 1973, Aleksandr
Writers Almanac December 28 ~ Today in 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns mammoth 260,000-word history of the Soviet prison camp system, The Gulag Archipel...

Writers Almanac December 27 ~ It’s the birthday of astronomer
Writers Almanac December 27 ~ It’s the birthday of astronomer Johannes Kepler, born to a poor mercenary in Württemberg, Germany (1571), who tracked...

Writers Almanac December 18 ~ It’s the birthday of jazz musician
Writers Almanac December 18 ~ It’s the birthday of jazz musician Fletcher Henderson, born in Cuthbert, Georgia (1897). He attended Atlanta Universit...

Writers Almanac October 31 ~ It was on this day in 1517 that
Writers Almanac October 31 ~ It was on this day in 1517 that Martin Luther (books by this author) posted his 95 Theses on a church door in Wittenberg,...

Writers Almanac October 19 ~ Its the birthday of motion picture
Writers Almanac October 19 ~ Its the birthday of motion picture pioneer Auguste Lumière (1862). He was born in Besançon, France, and his father was ...