The Bibliophile's Compass

🔴 1897 Playwright Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol 🔴 1934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Saturday Review of Literature"; males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars 🔴 1944 Writer and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois becomes 1st Black member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters 🔴 1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's play "Birthday Party" in L ondon

🔴1597 William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance 🔴1705 Richard Steele's play "Tender Husband" premieres in London 🔴1849 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and members of the Petrashevsky Circle are arrested in St. Petersburg 🔴1975 Harold Pinter's play "No Man's Land" premieres in London 🔴2024 Details of ancient Greek philosopher Plato's last night and burial place revealed by deciphering a carbonized scroll from Herculaneum, using new technologies including AI