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A Polish essayist, novelist and Nobel laureat.
French acrobat Charles Blondin, known as the Little Wonder, crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
Nineteen-year-old Arturo Toscanini makes an acclaimed conducting debut in Brazil as a substitute for the scheduled conductor of the opera "Aida."
President Warren Harding names former president William Howard Taft chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the "Night of the Long Knives," Adolf Hitler purges the National Socialist, or Nazi, party of its paramilitary storm trooper wing, killing hundreds of the party's most dedicated followers.
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia appeals in vain to the League of Nations to halt the Italian invasion of his country.
Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" is published. An immediate best-seller, it becomes one of the most popular novels of the century.
Brazil wins a record fifth World Cup title in men's soccer, defeating Germany at International Stadium in Yokohama, Japan.
A Polish essayist, novelist and Nobel laureate, was born on 30th June 1911 in Seteniai, Lithuania. He received numerous awards, including; Literary Prize and Nobel Prize for literature. His earliest poems appeared in a student publication at the university. Milosz's first two volumes of poetry were Trzy zimy (Three Winters) and Poemat o czasie zastyglym (Poem of the Frozen Time). He published “Zniewolony umysl” (“The Captive Mind,” 1953), an acclaimed political essay about the effects of World War II on the values of four imaginary writers forced to rationalize Stalinism and Nazism. In 1969 he published The History of Polish Literature. In 1998 he published Piesek przydrozny (Road-side Dog), a collection of personal essays, ruminations, and poetry.
He died on August 14, 2004, Krakow, Poland.
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