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ON THIS DAY: Victor Hugo was born (1802)

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On 26 February 1802, in the city of Besançon, a child was born who would grow to embody the restless spirit of 19th-century France....

ON THIS DAY: Legendary artist Jim Morrison is born (1943)

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Jim Morrison (1943–1971): Singer, poet, and enigmatic leader of The Doors On 8 December 1943, James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida. Today...

ON THIS DAY: The death of Edgar Allan Poe (1849)

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The master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s most influential writers and poets, died on this day in 1849 in Baltimore,...

ON THIS DAY: Federico García Lorca is born (1898)

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On 5 June 1898, in the small town of Fuente Vaqueros near Granada, Spain, Federico García Lorca was born—destined to become one of the...

ON THIS DAY: Poet Allen Ginsberg is born (1926)

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On 3 June 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, Allen Ginsberg was born — a poet whose name would come to define a cultural and...
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