1996 Event 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain 1973 Death Bob Gilbert, actor (Never the Twain Shall Meet), dies of hepatitis 75 1965 Birthday Shania Twain, born in Windsor, Canada, born Eileen Regina Edwards, singer, album, 'Come on Over' best-selling album of all time by a female musician 1963 Death Van Wyck Brooks, U.S. historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77 1925 Birthday Justin Kaplan, born in New York, New York, writer, editor, Pulitzer-prize winner and National Book Award-winner for biography on Mark Twain, edited Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition 1925 Birthday Hal Holbrook, born in Cleveland, actor, All the President's Men, Mark Twain 1910 Death Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 1886 Birthday Van Wyck Brooks, New Jersey, literary historian and writer, Ordeal of Mark Twain 1885 Event Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published 1870 Event Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, New York 1865 Event Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 1863 Event Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time 1835 Birthday Mark Twain, Samuel L Clemens, author, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
