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1989 Year of the Young Reader begins

1988 Year of the Reader begins

1981 Dewitt Wallace, U.S. founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91

1977 William E. Vaughan, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms, died age 61 from lung cancer

1975 James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader), dies at 54

1959 Eddi Reader, rocker, Fairground Attraction-Find My Love

1928 "My Weekly Reader" magazine made its debut

1928 Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep, Independent

1925 Fons Jansen, news reader/Dutch cabaretier, court jester of beliefs

1922 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published

1921 James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Star Trek Reader

1915 William E. Vaughan, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms

1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist, Female Reader


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