Events December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts New Books Amitabha - Paul Carus The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams Fenwick's Career - Mary Augusta Ward The House of Souls - Arthur Machen Joseph Vance - William de Morgan The Jungle - Upton Sinclair King Paradox - Pio Baroja Lady Baltimore - Owen Wister Men At War - Frank Thiess The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad My Dead Life - George A. Moore A Night in the Luxembourg - Remy de Gourmont Prisoners - Mary Cholmondeley Romance Island - Zona Gale The Spoilers - Rex Beach What is Man - Mark Twain The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson - Selma Lagerlof Births Anya Seton (+ 1990) January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (+ 1936) April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969 October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual Deaths February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Giosuč Carducci