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2007 Writers Guild of American goes on strike

1992 Philip Dunne, founder (Screen Writers Guild), dies of cancer at 84

1988 Writers guild end their 6 months strike

1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member

1977 Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77

1971 NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association

1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union

1966 Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty

1956 1st International conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne)

1956 Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge

1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen

1950 Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1946 Golf Writers Associaton of America forms

1945 Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer

1941 Football Writers Association of America organized

1935 Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers

1935 Peter Bichsel, born in Lucerne, Switzerland, writer, journalist, wrote 'And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman', member of the Gruppe Olten, a club of Swiss writers

1922 Mervyn Jones, author, Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers

1914 John Arlott, cricketer, the doyen of cricket commentators and writers

1908 Baseball Writers Association of America, forms

1908 Baseball Writers Association, formed

1888 Neville Cardus, cricketer, doyen of cricket writers

1856 Gerrit Kalff, writer, history of Dutch writers


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