Historybook: RIP Mary Louise Booth, first editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar (1889); Hula-Hoop patented by Arthur Melin (1958); HBD Chinese author Mo Yan and winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature (1955); US Voyager 1 spacecraft flies by Jupiter (1979): HBD American actress Eva Mendes (1974); HBD Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields (1999).
"When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal."
- Mo Yan