Now and again when online I take a look at the calendar at Daily Bleed. I should do it every day for my education and edification, and learn who was born, who died, who published, who rebelled, on this day; a sometimes useful, always entertaining source.
Today, I learn, Bertholt Brecht was born (1898), as was Alex Comfort (1920). This day in 1837 the immortal Alexander Pushkin proved that he was mortal by dying of his wounds - defending his wife's honour, explain's the Bleed. Too late, Sashenka, too late. And in 1354 the good citizens of Oxford made plain their opinion of students by killing some.
There's a bit of poetry too, Langston Hughes, Comfort.

I think I'll take a sneak preview of tomorrow's anniversaries.