Aug 30, 1918
A socialist revolutionary shot at Vladimir Lenin three times.
Lenin survived the assassination, and the assassin (Fanny Kaplin) was executed several days later.
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Today is
Frankenstein Day
The day celebrates the classic novel Frankenstein by English author Mary Shelley on her birthday.
Aug 30, 2013
Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet, and translator, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1995, died at age 74.