Mark the Calendar February 23

February 23:

1964 – Dana Scully born. Chris Carter: The X-Files

On the first day of Carnival, two executions at the Place del Popolo. Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo.

Mark the Calendar February 21

February 21:

1951. Wolfe connects the 'accidental' death of a publisher to two murders. Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe: Murder by the Book.

The Count makes an appointment with Albert. Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo.

November 1 Mark the Calendar

November 1 Mark the Calendar

1978 - Christine become street legal. Stephen King: Christine

1993. At Icy Cape, Alaska, the drilling team passes the record drilling depth, bringing up ice cores a quarter of a million years old. Chris Carter: The X-Files.

Claudius poisons King Hamlet in the orchard. John Updike: Gertrude and Claudius.

D'Artagnon finally hears from his comrades. Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers.

Mr. Rosier reaches Rome. Henry James: A Portrait of a Lady.

October 3 Mark the Calendar

October 3 Mark the Calendar

3018. Battle of Gandalf with the Nazgûl on Weathertop.
--JRR Tolkien: Legendarium of Arda.

The queen attends a fete with her new diamond earrings.
--Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers.

September 22 Mark the Calendar

September 22 Mark the Calendar

2004. Oceanic flight 815 enroute from Sydney to LA breaks apart in mid-air and crashes.
-Lieber, Abrams & Lindelof: Lost.

The king, Richelieu and Monsier le Due determine a plot against the queen.
-Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers.

August 15 Mark the Calendar

August 15 Mark the Calendar

1792 Charles Darnay leaves England for Paris.
--Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities.

1812 Darcy calls at Gracechurch Street.
--Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice.

Fouquet attends a royal fete.
--Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the Iron Mask.

August 5 Mark the Calendar

August 5 Mark the Calendar

1987. Ed and Helen Deepneau get married.
--Stephen King: Insomnia.

Cardinal Richelieu writes a letter which will be his undoing.
--Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers.

June 5 - Mark the Calendar

Mark the Calendar:

1962. Wolfe is hired to investigate the parentage of a baby left on a doorstep.

--Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe: The Mother Hunt.


1980. Draco Malfoy born.

--J.K. Rowling: The Harry Potter Lexicon.


1829. Penelon sees an Englishman speaking to Maximilian's father on the quay at Trieste.

--Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo.

June 3 - Mark the Calendar

Mark the Calendar:

1829. Bertuccio, fearing capture, abandons his contraband cargo and swims for shore.

--Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo.


1928 – Douglas Spaulding eats the first Eskimo Pie of the summer.

--Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine.


Billy Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahachee Bridge.

--Bobbie Gentry: Ode to Billy Joe.