2014 Event French author Patrick Modiano receives the Nobel Prize in Literature, winning the award over noted poet Adonis and writers Haruki Murakami, Svetlana Alexievich, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o 2014 Event New Baseball Hall of Fame inductees determined by Baseball Writers' Association of America voters include: Frank Thomas, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, and managers Tony La Russa, Joe Torre and Bobby Cox 2012 Event More than 700 writers, academics and others send a letter to protest the planned spending of $300 million on the Fifth Avenue Branch of the New York Public Library 2007 Event Writers Guild of American goes on strike 1992 Death Philip Dunne, founder (Screen Writers Guild), dies of cancer at 84 1988 Event Writers guild end their 6 months strike 1987 Event Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member 1977 Event Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77 1971 Event NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association 1969 Event Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union 1966 Event Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty 1956 Event 1st International conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne) 1956 Event Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge 1950 Birthday Nora Roberts, born in Silver Spring, Maryland, author, wrote 165 romance novels, Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame inductee, sold over 280 million books 1950 Event "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen 1950 Event Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1946 Event Golf Writers Associaton of America forms 1945 Event Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer 1941 Event Football Writers Association of America organized 1935 Event Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers 1935 Birthday 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 Birthday Mervyn Jones, author, Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers 1914 Birthday John Arlott, cricketer, the doyen of cricket commentators and writers 1908 Event Baseball Writers Association of America, forms 1908 Event Baseball Writers Association, formed 1888 Birthday Neville Cardus, cricketer, doyen of cricket writers 1856 Birthday Gerrit Kalff, writer, history of Dutch writers
