On this day:
1966: Botswana becomes independent from the UK
2005: Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten publishes controversial cartoon leading to riots in many parts of the world
Born on this day:
1207: Rumi, Persian mystic, poet
1928: Elie Wiesel, Romanian/American author, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1987: Alfred Bester, American author
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