June 11 - Mary Augusta Ward, author (+ 19201920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 Britain announces it will build 100,000 homes for war veterans. January 10 Leagu)
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February 1February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 333 days remaining, (334 in leap years). Events 1662 The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. 1788 Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet pate - Mary ShelleyMary Wollstonecraft Shelley ( August 30, 1797 February 1, 1851) was an English writer who is, perhaps, equally-famously remembered as the wife of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus''. Biography M, author
February 23February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 311 days remaining, 312 in leap years. Events 1455 Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type. 1574 The 5th hol - Joanna BaillieJoanna Baillie ( 1762- 1851), poet and dramatist Born at the manse of Bothwell, Lanarkshire on the banks of the Clyde, on September 11, 1762, she belonged to an old Scottish family, which claimed among its ancestors Sir William Wallace. At an early period, Scottish poet, dramatist
September 14September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). There are 108 days remaining. Events 786 Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi 1752 The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping elev - James Fenimore CooperJames Fenimore Cooper ( September 15, 1789 September 14, 1851), American novelist, was born at Burlington, New Jersey, on the 15th of September 1789. Reared in the wild country round Otsego Lake, New York, on the yet unsettled estates of his father Willia, writer
