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EVENTS

December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first Radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts

NEW BOOKS

'' Amitabha '' - Paul Carus

'' Beneath The Wheel '' - Hermann Hesse

'' Beyond The Rocks '' - Elinor Glyn

'' Botchan '' - Natsume Sōseki

'' The Education Of Henry Adams '' - Henry Adams

'' Fenwick's Career '' - Mary Augusta Ward

'' The Four Million '' - O. Henry

'' The House Of Souls '' - Arthur Machen

'' In The Days Of The Comet '' - H. G. Wells

'' Josefine Mutzenbacher ''

'' Joseph Vance '' - William De Morgan

'' The Jungle '' - Upton Sinclair

'' King Paradox '' - Pio Baroja

'' Lady Baltimore '' - Owen Wister

'' The Man Of Property '' - John Galsworthy

'' Men At War '' - Frank Thiess

'' The Man Who Was Thursday '' - G. K. Chesterton

'' The Mirror Of The Sea '' - Joseph Conrad

'' My Dead Life '' - George Moore (novelist)

'' A Night In The Luxembourg '' - Remy De Gourmont

'' Prison ers'' - Mary Cholmondeley

'' The Railway Children '' - Edith Nesbit

'' Romance Island '' - Zona Gale

'' The Spoilers '' - Rex Beach

'' The Story Of The Amulet '' - Edith Nesbit

'' What Is Man? '' - Mark Twain

'' The Wonderful Adventures Of Nils Holgerson '' - Selma Lagerlöf

NEW DRAMA

John Galsworthy - ''The Silver Box''

Harley Granville-Barker - ''Waste''

George Barr McCutcheon - '' Brewster's Millions '', theatrical adaptation

BIRTHS

January 22 - Robert E. Howard , American fantasy author (d. 1936 )

January 23 - Anya Seton , American romantic author (d. 1990 )

February 15 - Musa Calil , poet

March 25 - A. J. P. Taylor , historian

April 13 - Samuel Beckett , writer, winner of the Nobel Prize In Literature 1969

June 20 - Catherine Cookson , best-selling novelist

July 18 - Clifford Odets , dramatist

August 30 - Elizabeth Longford , biographer

September 25 - Franklin Garrett , historian of Alabama

October 10 - R.K. Narayan , Indian Novelist (d. 2001)

October 14 - Hannah Arendt , German/US intellectual

DEATHS

February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar , poet

March 2 - Ellen Mary Clerke , novelist

April 6 - Alexander Kielland , novelist

April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church , American editor and publisher

April 14 - Nora Chesson , poet

May 23 - Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian playwright

June 29 - Albert Sorel , historian

June 30 - Jean Lorrain , Symbolist poet

December 6 - Anne Ross Cousin , poet

AWARDS