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The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, July 29, 2020

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The painter Vincent van Gogh died on this date 130 years ago. World-famous now, he was virtually unknown at the time of his death.

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, July 28, 2020

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It’s the birthday of Earl Tupper (1907), who worked with plastics at the DuPont Chemical Company and then invented Tupperware.

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, July 27, 2020

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It’s the birthday of novelist Bharati Mukherjee (1940-1917), who wrote “The Tiger’s Daughter” (1971), “Jasmine” (1989), and “Miss New India” (2011).

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, July 26, 2020

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It’s the birthday of psychoanalyst Carl Jung (1875), who believed that archetypes from cultural stories come from a collective unconscious that all humans share.

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, July 25, 2020

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It’s the birthday of Louise Brown, the first baby conceived via in vitro insemination and born in Oldham, Great Britain, in 1978.

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, July 24, 2020

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It’s the birthday hymn writer John Newton (1725), a trader of African slaves who later became a vocal abolitionist. He wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, July 23, 2020

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On this night in 1967, an uprising began in Detroit after an all-white squadron of police officers decided to raid a bar in a black neighborhood.

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, July 22, 2020

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It’s the birthday of poet Emma Lazarus (New York, 1849), who wrote the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, July 21, 2020

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“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.” –Ernest Hemingway, born this day in 1899

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, July 20, 2020

Posted on July 20, 2020 - Writer's Almanac

On this day in 1875, that the largest recorded swarm of locusts in American history descended upon the Great Plains.

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