My pile of unread novels reaching critically low levels, I ordered Stephen King's latest 11/22/63 from Book Depository today. It's an alternate version of the JFK assassination, and it got me thinking more about that fateful day. And then a coincidence hit me - the novel I started today was Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and he died on that very same day 49 years ago. (Incidentally, his wife shot him up with LSD before the went, so he didn't suffer too badly.)
Curious, I delved further and found that C.S.Lewis, author and scholar, also died that day.
Has there ever been another single day when we've lost so many distinguished people?
ps. Another significant event happened at the same time: the first episode of Dr Who was broadcast the following day.
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