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ON THIS DAY: Victor Hugo was born (1802)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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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ON THIS DAY: Dimitris Mitropanos died (2012)

On this day, 17 April 2012, Greece lost one...

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