Joanne Rowling,  better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling,
is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote Harry Potter,
a seven-volume children’s fantasy series published from 1997
to 2007. The series has sold over 500 million copies, been
translated into at least 70 languages, and spawned a global
media franchise including films and video games. The Casual
Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. She writes
Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, as Robert
Galbraith.

  
MIKE GRACIA

Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey) achieved international fame
as the drummer for The Beatles. He 82 years old today.

MIKE GRACIA

Woodrow Wilson before Congress in 1917.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)

An illustration depicts the famous meeting of Livingston and Stanley at Ujiji, Lake Tanganyika in Africa.  

Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his famous search through
Africa for the missing British explorer and Scottish physician, Dr.
David Livingstone (below).

Sir Henry Morton Stanley
(John Rowlands)
(28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904)

David Livingstone
(19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873)

Rare vintage 1937 first edition of Steinbeck’s novel.

John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, the story of the bond
between two migrant workers, is published. He adapted the book
into a three-act play, which was produced the same year. The
story brought national attention to Steinbeck’s work, which had
atarted to catch on in 1935 with the publication of his first novel, 
the successful Tortilla Flat.

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr.
(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)

Steinbeck won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature 
"for his realistic and imaginative writings”..