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1991 Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered

1989 Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie

1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"

1989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie

1989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel

1989 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradfort England

1953 Dimitur Poljanov, Popov, Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies

1947 Salman Rushdie, Pak, novelist, Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses

1915 Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poet, That Woman and Other Verses


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