1900 Birthday Karin Boye, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, born Karin Maria Boye, poet, novelist, co-founder of poetry magazine Spektrum, introduced T.S. Eliot to Swedish readers, best-known novel 'Kallocain' 1889 Birthday DeWitt Wallace, St. Paul, Minnesota, publisher, founded Readers Digest, 1921 1865 Event Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man" 1800 Birthday William H McGuffey, educator, McGuffey Readers