2015 Event Harper Lee will release her second novel, 'Go Set a Watchman,' after 55 years; Lee wrote this novel first, presenting Scout as an adult, but editors convinced Lee to write instead about Scout as a child, resulting in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 2012 Event The brother of Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1982 Nobel Prize of Literature recipient, announces he suffers from Dementia and can no longer write 2001 Death Leopold Page, leathergoods retailer/historian, convinced Thomas Keneally to write Schindler's List, dies at 87 2000 Death Wladyslaw Szpilman, pianist/writer, ", write Death of a City, later filmed as The Pianist, ", dies at 78 1976 Event "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1 1964 Event John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in U.S. 1950 Event Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution) 1946 Birthday Barry Manilow, born in Brooklyn, New York, singer/pianist, Mandy, I Write the Songs 1944 Birthday Bruce Johnston, born in Peoria, Illinois, born Benjamin Baldwin, rocker, musician, singer, record producer, Grammy-Award winning songwriter, member of The Beach Boys, composed I Write The Songs 1814 Event Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner" 1776 Event Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence
