First United States printing of John Cleland's1749 novel, '' Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure).'' The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.
Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories featuring Simon Templar , a.k.a. "The Saint", '' The Saint In The Sun ''. After this, all future Saint books would be ghost written by other authors, though Charteris would collaborate on two more Saint books in the 1970s.
