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1800 
 American abolitionist John Brown born in Torrington, Connecticut.
			
1860 
 Author James M Barrie (Peter Pan) born in Kirriemuir, England. 
			
1921 
 T.S. Eliot began "The Waste Land".
			
1938 
 Poet Charles Simic born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
			
1958 
 Alfred Hitchcok's film  Vertigo premiered in San Francisco.
1961
 
 FCC Chairman Newton Minow calls TV 'A Vast Wasteland'.