Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1694: Birthday of Voltaire, the French philosopher who led the Enlightenment.1966: The National Orga... More info on this event

Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1916: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presents a medallion to Sherlock Holmes.1963: U.S. President Joh... More info on this event

Monday, November 23, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1859: Birthday of William (Billy the Kid H. Bonney, future Western gunslinger and outlaw, in New Yor... More info on this event

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1894: Sherlock Holmes awarded the French Legion of Honor for capturing The Boulevard Assassin.1908: ... More info on this event

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1914: Birthday of The Yankee Clipper, Joe Di Maggio.... More info on this event

Thursday, November 26, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1883: Sojourner Truth, former slave and abolitionist, died.... More info on this event

Friday, November 27, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1790: Governor St. Clair of the Northwest Territory wrote that Cincinnati was the most proper place ... More info on this event

Saturday, November 28, 2009 2:00 p.m.
	*** Author & Artist Discussion & Signing: Rick Kogan & Charles Osgood Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore Description: Title: Sidewalks II Photogrpahic Study of Chicago by Charles Osgood with Essays by Rick Kogan.... More info on this event

Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1628: The Birthday of John Bunyan, English religious preacher who was imprisoned as a Puritan and th... More info on this event

Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1832: Birthday of Louisa May Alcott American author of Little Women.1864: 133 Cheyenne and Arapahoe,... More info on this event

Monday, November 30, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1667: Birthday of the "Anglo-Irish" writer and satirist, Jonathan Swift and Dean of St. Patrick's Ca... More info on this event

December 2009

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1886: Birthday of mystery author and creator of The Nero Wolfe series, Rex (Todhunter) Stout.1897: ... More info on this event

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1954: The United States Senate censures Senator Joseph R. Mc Carthy of Wisconsin.1980: Four U.S. Cat... More info on this event

Thursday, December 3, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1857: Birthday of Joseph Conrad British novelist born,Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in Poland. Hi... More info on this event

Friday, December 4, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1790: A Philadelphia newspaper reported that the penalty for dueling in Sweden was the death of the ... More info on this event

Saturday, December 5, 2009 2:00 p.m.
	*** Author Discussion & Signing : Helen Osterman Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: Two Titles In One Year: Stranger in the Opera House (A Cozy)Notes in a Mirror (Set Dunning Mental H... More info on this event

Saturday, December 5, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1901: The Birthday of Walt Disney, U.S. producer of cartoon films. Creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald D... More info on this event

Sunday, December 6, 2009 2:00 p.m.
	Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Group Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore Description: Title: Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His MusicAuthor: Jane Glover... More info on this event

Sunday, December 6, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1869: First National Black Labor Group, The Colored National Labor Convention met in Washington, D.C... More info on this event

Monday, December 7, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1837: Birthday of Dr. Joe Bell, M.D.,professor at Edinburgh University's Medical School, instructor ... More info on this event

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 65 BC: The Birthday of Horace(Quintus Horatius Flacus), Roman poet. His father was an ex-slave who p... More info on this event

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1608: Birthday of John Milton, English Puritan poet and prose writer. Milton held government offices... More info on this event

Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1830: Birthday of Emily Dickinson, American poet who spent her life in seclusion with her Calvinist ... More info on this event

Friday, December 11, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1918: Birthday of modern Russian novelist, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn... More info on this event

Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1745: Birthday of the First United States Supreme Court Chief Justice appointed by President George ... More info on this event

Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day: Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1915: Birthday of the creator of The Lew Archer Mystery Series, Ross Macdonald.... More info on this event

Monday, December 14, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1503: Birthday of French astrologer and physician, Michel de Notredame [Nostradamus]. His Centuries,... More info on this event

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1791: Virginia was the tenth state to ratify, and The Bill of Rights (The First Ten Amendments) beca... More info on this event

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1770: Birthday of Dutch composer Ludwig van Beethoven.1773: The Boston Tea Party.1775: Birthday of ... More info on this event

Thursday, December 17, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1790: The Quakers objected to Congress about the establishment of a militia throughout the United St... More info on this event

Friday, December 18, 2009 7:00 p.m.
	*** Author Discussion & Signing : Suzanne Martinson Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: Title: The Fallingwater Cookbook: Elsie Henderson's Recipes & Memories... More info on this event

Friday, December 18, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1865: The Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery is passed.... More info on this event

Saturday, December 19, 2009 2:00 p.m.
	Mystery Discussion Group Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore Description: Title: Storm Front (Dresden Files Series #1) Author Jim Butcher... More info on this event

Saturday, December 19, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1940: Civilian public service camps for Conscientious Objectors are established.... More info on this event

Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1951: Atomic Energy was first used to generate electricity in the United States.... More info on this event

Monday, December 21, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1620: Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.1804: Birthday of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of Great ... More info on this event

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1639: Birthday Of Jean Baptiste Racine, French tragic dramatist.... More info on this event

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1790: United States Senate formed a committee to consider a national bank.1947: President Harry S. T... More info on this event

Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1809: Birthday of Christopher Kit Carson, one of the most hallowed figures of the Wild West and one ... More info on this event

Friday, December 25, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1642: Birthday of English mathmetician and scientist, Sir Isaac Newton.... More info on this event

Saturday, December 26, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1776: General George Washington led American forces of the Revolution in a surprise attack and victo... More info on this event

Sunday, December 27, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1900: Prohibitionist, Carry Nation led the first bottle-smashing raid of a saloon in Wichita, Kansas... More info on this event

Monday, December 28, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1971: Antiwar Protestors peacefully end their occupation of the Statue of Liberty.... More info on this event

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1170: St. Thomas a'Becket was murdered at the altar of The Canterbury Cathedral by men of King Henry... More info on this event

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1865: Birthday of British writer and poet, Sir Rudyard Kipling.1922: Birthday of American mystery wr... More info on this event

Thursday, December 31, 2009 1:00 a.m.
	New Year's Eve Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: CLOSED FOR INVENTORY... More info on this event

January 2010

Friday, January 1, 2010 1:00 a.m.
	New Year's Day Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: CLOSED... More info on this event

Friday, January 1, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1863: President Abraham Lincoln signs The Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in the Confed... More info on this event

Saturday, January 2, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1796: United States House of Representatives heard bribery charges against it's fellow members, Whit... More info on this event

Sunday, January 3, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 106 B.C.: Birthday of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman lawyer, orator, and statesman. After Julius Caes... More info on this event

Monday, January 4, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1785: Birthday of Jakob Ludwig Grimm, German scholar and along with his brother Wilhelm Karl were kn... More info on this event

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1796: At U.S. Congressional Hearings for Robert Randall, questioned him about having attempted to b... More info on this event

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1796: The U.S. House of Repesenatatives found Robert Randall guilty of attempted bribery.1854: Birth... More info on this event

Thursday, January 7, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1903: Sherlock Holmes, himself penned The Blanched Soldier, which began on this date.1968: The date ... More info on this event

Friday, January 8, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1815: Generel Andrew Jackson defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans with the help of the ... More info on this event

Saturday, January 9, 2010 11:00 a.m.
	Sisters In Crime Meeting Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore Description: Topic: Building Suspense in Your MyteriesGuest Speaker/Author: Libby Fischer Hellmann... More info on this event

Saturday, January 9, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1964: One of the many Holmesian Societies, The Solitary Cyclists founded in Sweden.1908: Birthday of... More info on this event

Sunday, January 10, 2010 3:00 p.m.
	***Publishing House (Allium Press of Chicago) & Author (Frances McNamara) Debut Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore Description: Author Discussion & Signing:Titles: Death at the Fair and Death at Hull House (Both Emily Cabot Myst... More info on this event

Sunday, January 10, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1796: James Madison informed Thomas Jefferson of the Randall-Whitney bribery case.1738: Birthday of ... More info on this event

Monday, January 11, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1796: U.S. House of Representatives recommneded a bill for establishment of trading houses with Indi... More info on this event

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1903: Sherlock Holmes with a single word on a scrap of paper forced a confession from Colonel Elmswo... More info on this event

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1832: Birthday of Horatio Alger, Jr,, American clergyman and writer.1926: Birthday of Carolyn Heilbu... More info on this event

Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1796: A Bill to amend an act to promote the useful arts read for a second time in U.S. Senate.1899: ... More info on this event

Friday, January 15, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1902: Birthday of Albert Z. Carr, American economist and mystery author whose short stories appeared... More info on this event

Saturday, January 16, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1796: Thomas Jefferson wrote George Wythe about printing old Virginia Laws.... More info on this event

Sunday, January 17, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1706: Birthday of American patriot, sage, scholar, inventor, statesman, businessman, etc., Dr. Benja... More info on this event

Monday, January 18, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1782: Birthday of Daniel Webster American orator, senator from Massachusettes, and participant with ... More info on this event

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1796: U.S. Senate passed bill to amend an act to promtote the useful arts (e.g. agriculture and man... More info on this event

Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1807: Birthday of General Robert Edward Lee (CSA), graduate of West Point, officer in the Mexican Wa... More info on this event

Friday, January 22, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1561: Birthday of English philosopher and politician, Francis Bacon.1788 Birthday of Lord Byron [Geo... More info on this event

Saturday, January 23, 2010 1:00 p.m.
	*** Authors Discussion & Signing : Barbara D'Amato; Jeanne M. Dams & Mark R. Zubro Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: Title: Foolproof: A Stunning Global Thriller that Exposes a Terrorist Plot to Topple Democracies Wor... More info on this event

Sunday, January 24, 2010 2:00 p.m.
	Authors Discussion & Signing : David Heinzmann & Lee J. Williams Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore Description: Titles: A Word to the Wise: Former FBI agent working as an attorney has problems with organized crim... More info on this event

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:00 p.m.
	*** Author Discussion & Signing : Alan Gordon Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore Description: Title: The Parisian Prodigal (8th Theophilos & Viola, agents of the Fools Guild in 13th Century Fra... More info on this event

Friday, January 29, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1737: Birthday of Thomas Paine, American political philospher and writer known for his pamphlet, Com... More info on this event

Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1649: King Charles I of England was beheaded, beginning the English Civil War.1882: Birthday of Pre... More info on this event

Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1796: President George Washington wrote to Thomas Jefferson about the location of an arsenal on the ... More info on this event

February 2010

Monday, February 1, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1878: Birthday of Henry Christopher Bailey, English detective story writer and creator of Reggie For... More info on this event

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1882: Birthday of James Joyce, Irish writer, born and educated in Dublin, but in 1904 left Ireland f... More info on this event

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1874: Birthday of Gertrude Stein, U.S. writer who left for Paris in 1903 and began her important mod... More info on this event

Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day ... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1913: Birthday of Rosa Lee Parks who begain the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in June, 1956.1947:... More info on this event

Friday, February 5, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1915: Birthday of Candian-American mystery writer, Margaret Millar who won the 1955 Mystery Writers... More info on this event

Saturday, February 6, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1564: Birthday of Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist, son of a shoemaker educated at Cambridge a... More info on this event

Sunday, February 7, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1812: Birthday of English novelist, Charles Dickens.1867: Birthday of American writer of the The Lit... More info on this event

Monday, February 8, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	OnThis Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1828: Birthday of the French writer of science-fiction novels, Jules Verne.1877: Sherlock Holmes pub... More info on this event

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1874: Birthday of Amy Lowell U.S.poet from a prominent Boston family who in 1913 after she published... More info on this event

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1775: Birthday of Charles Lamb British essayist who after his education at Christ's Hospital worked ... More info on this event

Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1847: Birthday of the greatest American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison.1891: Birthday of Elliot Paul,... More info on this event

Friday, February 12, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1808: Birthday of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.1847: Birthday of Sherloc... More info on this event

Saturday, February 13, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1885: Birthday of First Lady to President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman.1903: Birthday of French myst... More info on this event

Sunday, February 14, 2010 1:00 p.m.
	Author Discussion & Signing: John Presta Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore Description: Title: Mr. & Mrs. Grassroots: How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners, & 300 Volunteers Did ItA Great... More info on this event

Sunday, February 14, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1891: Professor Moriarity said to Sherlock Holmes,"By the middle of February I was seriously inconve... More info on this event

Monday, February 15, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1820: Birthday of Susan B. Anthony, leader of the Women's Suffrage movement in the U.S.1883: Birthda... More info on this event

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1903: Birthday of Edgar Bergen, a famous ventriloquist who ironically got his start in radio with is... More info on this event

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1775: Birthday of English political economist, Thomas Malthus whose geometric population growth theo... More info on this event

Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1922: Birthday of Helen Gurley Brown, feminist editor and owner of Cosmopolitan Magazine for the lib... More info on this event

Friday, February 19, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day ... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1473: Birthday of the Polish astronomer and religious cleric, Nicholas Copernicus, who as Martin Lut... More info on this event

Friday, February 19, 2010 11:30 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1853: Birthday of Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, Vincent Van Gogh.1870: Passage of the Fifteenth ... More info on this event

Saturday, February 20, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1694: Birthday of Voltaire, pseudonym of Francois Marie Arouet, French philosophical writer, playw... More info on this event

Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1907: Birthday of W(ystan)H(ugh) Auden, British poet, considered the leader of the young left-wing... More info on this event

Monday, February 22, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1732: Birthday of George Washington Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolutionary Army and first ... More info on this event

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1633: Birthday of English diarist, Samuel Pepys who became a member of Parliament in 1679 and spent ... More info on this event

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1945: Native American, Ira Hayes participated in the flag raising on Iwo Jima.... More info on this event

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1786: Birthday of the youngest, Wilhelm Carl Grimm of two brothers known for their work as German sc... More info on this event

Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1913: 16th Amendment passed giving Congress the power to lay and collect taxes on income.... More info on this event

Friday, February 26, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1802: Birthday of the French novelist, Victor Hugo.1829: Birthday of Levi Strauss, a German immigran... More info on this event

Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1807: Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow New England writer of epic poems that many times referr... More info on this event

Sunday, February 28, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1991: President George Bush announces a cease-fire to end the Iraq War a.k.a. Gulf War.1926: Birthda... More info on this event

March 2010

Monday, March 1, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1810: Birthday of Franco-Polish composer, Frederic Chopin.... More info on this event

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On this Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1904: Birthday of U.S. Children's author, illustrator, cartoonist, & screenplay writer, Dr. Seuss (... More info on this event

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On this Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1847: Birthday of the Scotish teacher to the deaf and inventor of the telephone, Alexander Grahm Bel... More info on this event

Thursday, March 4, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1747: Birthday of the Polish patriot that served in the American Revolution & was killed at the Batt... More info on this event

Friday, March 5, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1881: First appearance of The Baker Street Irregulars, the street urchins that assist Sherlock Holme... More info on this event

Saturday, March 6, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	OnThis Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1806: Birthday of English poet, Elizabeth Barret Browning. 1836: The End of the Seige of the Alamo.... More info on this event

Sunday, March 7, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1794: U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill prohibiting slave trade from the U.S. to any forei... More info on this event

Monday, March 8, 2010 11:37 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1943: Birthday of Lynn Redgrave, British actress, daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave & sister to actre... More info on this event

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1898: Birthday of controversial English author & biographer, Vita Sackville-West.1918: Birthday of M... More info on this event

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1883: In the Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the same name, Elias Oppenshaw receives Five Orange Pips f... More info on this event

Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1921: Birthday of Aurora, IL born Elizabeth Linington American author of historical & mysyery novel... More info on this event

Friday, March 12, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1868: Birthday of English churchman, author, & mystery writer, Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch.1906: Birt... More info on this event

Saturday, March 13, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1794: U.S. House of Representatives passed appropriation bill for the support of the military for th... More info on this event

Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1794: Eli Whitney obtained patent for his Cotton Gin.1864: Birthday of legendary hero & train engine... More info on this event

Monday, March 15, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 44 BC: On this day Julius Gaius Caesar, the first Roman emperor was attacked & killed in the Roman s... More info on this event

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1897: Holmes & Watson are on Poldhu Bay on the Cornish peninsula in The Adventure of the Devil's Foo... More info on this event

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:00 a.m.
	St. Patrick's Day Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: Traditional Irish religious Holy Day & in America a ethnic Holiday... More info on this event

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1904: Birthday of English novelist an playwright, Patrick Anthony Walter Hamilton.1919: Birthday of... More info on this event

Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Phone: 708-771-7243 Description: 1927: Birthday of American journalist and novelist, George Plimpton.1932: Birthday of American novel... More info on this event

Friday, March 19, 2010 1:00 a.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: St. Joseph's Feast Day... More info on this event

Friday, March 19, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1912: Birthday of Hugh Wheeler author of the book and lyrics for the play/musical, Sweeney Todd: The... More info on this event

Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 43 BC: Birthday of Roman poet, Publius [Ovid]ius Naso.1828: Birthday of Norwegian dramatist and poet... More info on this event

Sunday, March 21, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1685: Birthday of German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach.... More info on this event

Monday, March 22, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1846: Birthday of English artist, illustrator, and pioneer in creating picture books for children, R... More info on this event

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1857: Birthday of the American authority on cooking, Fannie Farmer.1890: Dr. Watson begins The Adven... More info on this event

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1874: Birthday of world renowned & legendary magician & close friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harr... More info on this event

Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1903: Birthday of Minnesota-born American mystery novelist, Mabel Seeley.1925: Birthday of U.S. writ... More info on this event

Friday, March 26, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1874: Birthday of American poet, Robert Frost.1914: Birthday of American playwright, Tennessee Willi... More info on this event

Saturday, March 27, 2010 2:00 p.m.
	*** Author Discussion & Signing : Erin Hart Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore Description: Title: False Mermaid, (3rd Nora Gavin & Cormac Mc Guire Mystery set in modern Ireland) Erin's husban... More info on this event

Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1794: U.S. Congress authorized contsruction of six frigates, creating the U.S. Navy.1927: Birthday o... More info on this event

Sunday, March 28, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1868: Birthday of playwright and social activist in the last days of Tsarist Russia, Maxim Gorky.190... More info on this event

Monday, March 29, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1889: Birthday of Howard Lindsay who with Russell M. Crouse were playwrights (Lindsay aan actor)team... More info on this event

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1853: Birthday of Dutch Post Impressionist artist, Vincent Van Gogh.1870: U.S. Congress passes the F... More info on this event

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1891: Professor James Moriarty informs Sherlock Holmes ".... at the end of March, I was absolutely h... More info on this event

April 2010

Thursday, April 1, 2010 1:00 a.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: April Fool's Day... More info on this event

Thursday, April 1, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1875: Birthday of Edgar Wallace English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet, and journalis... More info on this event

Friday, April 2, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1805: Birthday of Danish author and collector of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen.Birthday of Em... More info on this event

Saturday, April 3, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1783: Birthday of American essayist, novelist and historian, Washington Irving... More info on this event

Sunday, April 4, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day,,, Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1894: Holmes & Watson capture Col. Sabastian Moran in The Empty House.1928: Birthday of author and c... More info on this event

Monday, April 5, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1856: Birthday of Black educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington.1917: Birth... More info on this event

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1670: Birthday of French lyric poet, Jean Baptiste Rousseau.1712: Slave Revolt in New York city ends... More info on this event

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1966: United States Hydrogen Bomb, missing since the crash of a B-52 Bomber, in January, off the Spa... More info on this event

Friday, April 9, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1865: General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate States of America surrendered to General Ulysses S. G... More info on this event

Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1865: Native American, General Ely Parker, serving under General U.S. Grant, wrote the surrender pap... More info on this event

Friday, April 16, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1746: Battle of Culloden marked by the ruthless execution of Scottish highlanders by the soildiers o... More info on this event

Saturday, April 17, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1961: CIA-Supported Invasion of The Bay of Pigs, Cuba, thwarted.... More info on this event

Sunday, April 18, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1857: Birthday of famous Chicago-based American lawyer, Clarence Darrow.1906: San Francisco Earthqua... More info on this event

Monday, April 19, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1521: Before the Diet of Worms, Martin Luther stated: "Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me.... More info on this event

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1889: Birthday of Nazi Furher Adolph [Schicklegruber] Hitler.1899: End of Sherlock Holmes' Case of t... More info on this event

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1816: Birthday of English novelist, Charlotte Bronte.1869: Ely Parker, a Seneca Iroquois, is the fir... More info on this event

Thursday, April 22, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1526: First Slave Revolt in an American settlement.1724: Birthday of German philosopher and metaphys... More info on this event

Friday, April 23, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1564: Birthday of the English bard, poet and playwright, William Shakespeare.1660: Coronation of Kin... More info on this event

Saturday, April 24, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1800: Founding of The Library of Congress,1905: Birthday of Robert Penn Warren, American poet and cr... More info on this event

Sunday, April 25, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1891: Holmes & Watson leave for Geneva SW in The Final Problem after Moriarty's cohorts set fire to ... More info on this event

Monday, April 26, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1944: U.S. Government takes over Chicago headquarters of Montgomery Wards after it defies National L... More info on this event

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1759: Birthday of Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women and mot... More info on this event

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1926: Birthday of Author of award winning, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee.1965: U.S. Marines land... More info on this event

Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1863: Birthday of William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher and Father of Yellow Journalism.1915:... More info on this event

Friday, April 30, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1877: Birthday of Alice B. Toklas, American author who spent most of her life in Paris as the compan... More info on this event

May 2010

Saturday, May 1, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1769: Birthday of The Honorable Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, victor in the Penninsula... More info on this event

Sunday, May 2, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1452: Birthday of the Truly Renaissance Man, Leonardo Da Vinci.1896: U.S.Marines intervene in Corint... More info on this event

Monday, May 3, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1469: Birthday of the author of The Prince and The Discourses, Niccolo Machiavelli.1981: 100,000 pro... More info on this event

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1796: Birthday of an American who strongly influenced the evolution of modern public school educatio... More info on this event

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1813: Birthday of the Danish philosopher & author, Soren Kierkegard.1862: Cinco de Mayo: Celebration... More info on this event

Thursday, May 6, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day ... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1787: Founding of The African Masonic Lodge1856: Birthday of world renowned Austrian psychiatrist, S... More info on this event

Friday, May 7, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1812: Birthday of Victorian poet, Robert Browning who married Elizabeth Barrett and lived the best y... More info on this event

Saturday, May 8, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1984: Marks the first broadcast of The Naval Treaty with Jeremy Brett in the role of Sherlock Holmes... More info on this event

Sunday, May 9, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1800: Birthday of militant and some say martyred abolitionist, John Brown.1974: U.S.House of Represe... More info on this event

Monday, May 10, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1837: Panic begins a seven year Depression. 1864: Cherokee leader Stand Watie is promoted to the ran... More info on this event

Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1898: Birthday of Russian-born U.S. songwriter Irving Berlin.1968: Pullman Stike in Chicago to prote... More info on this event

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1844: Siger Holmes marries Violet Sheringford at St Sidwell's Church in Exeter. Their offspring are ... More info on this event

Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1846: United States declares war on Mexico.1886: New York state commission named to report on humane... More info on this event

Friday, May 14, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1265: Birthday of Italian Renaissance author of The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.1941: First group... More info on this event

Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1964: U.S. began bombing Laos.1965: National Teach-In held to oppose the War in Vietnam in Washingto... More info on this event

Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1865: Massachusetts passes the First State Civil Rights Law.1901: Adventure of the Priory School beg... More info on this event

Monday, May 17, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1954: Brown vs. Board of Education, decision by the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in publi... More info on this event

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1896: Plessy vs Ferguson decision by the U.S. Supreme Court upholds Separate but Equal doctrine.1909... More info on this event

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1890: The Adventure of the Six Napoleons began with the disappearance of the Black Pearl of the Borg... More info on this event

Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1799: Birthday of French writer, Honore de Balzac.1806: Birthday of American philospher, John Stuar... More info on this event

Friday, May 21, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1888: Irene Adler married Godfrey Norton in A Scandal in Bohemia.1919: Women's Suffrage Bill passes ... More info on this event

Saturday, May 22, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1859: Birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle author the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, historical romances, ... More info on this event

Sunday, May 23, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day ... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1889: The day upon which Percy Phelps told Sherlock Holmes that the secret Naval Treaty had been sto... More info on this event

Monday, May 24, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1819: Birthday of Victoria, Queen of the Bitish Isles, & Empress of India.1905: Birthday of Mikhail ... More info on this event

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1787: Constitutional Convention met in Indepence Hall Philadelhia, PA.1803: Birthday of American wri... More info on this event

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1903: Sherlock Holmes began his Adventure of the Three Gables.... More info on this event

Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1894: Birthday of (Samuel)Dashiell Hammett, American mystery writer and creator of Sam Spade.1915: B... More info on this event

Friday, May 28, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1830: President Andrew Jackson signs Indian Removal Act.1874: Birthday G.(ilbert) K.(eith)Chesterton... More info on this event

Saturday, May 29, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day,,, Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1917: Birthday of the first Irish-Catholic President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.1... More info on this event

Sunday, May 30, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1741: 31 Blacks and 4 Whites executed for plotting a New York City Slave Revolt.1895: Sherlock Holme... More info on this event

Monday, May 31, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1779: George Washington orders the military campaign against the Iroquois.1819: Birthday of American... More info on this event

June 2010

Tuesday, June 1, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1808: Birthday of Brigham Young who brought the Mormons(Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints) from ... More info on this event

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1740: Birthday of French philosopher & writer, Marquis de Sade.1863: Harriet Tubman frees 750 slav... More info on this event

Thursday, June 3, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1900: The founding of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.... More info on this event

Friday, June 4, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1888: Sir Charles Baskerville died mysteriously in the Yew Alley of Baskerville Hall.1966: Civil Rig... More info on this event

Saturday, June 5, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1637: Pequot Indians killed by colonists at Mystic, Connecticutt.1723: Birth of Scotish political ec... More info on this event

Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1799: Birthday of Russian poet, Aleksandr Pushkin.1934: First meeting of The Sherlock Holmes Society... More info on this event

Monday, June 7, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1866: Birthday of English mystery author of the Raffles series and brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Cona... More info on this event

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1867: Birthday of world-renowned American architect & initiator of the Prairie School of architectur... More info on this event

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1934: Birthday of Walt Disney character, Donald Duck.... More info on this event

Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1900: Resolution by Sherlock Holmes of The Adventure of the Six Napoleons.... More info on this event

Friday, June 11, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1572: Birthday of English dramatist, Ben Jonson.1877: Beginning of the Great Railroad Strike.1923: B... More info on this event

Saturday, June 12, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1920: The Farm-Labor Party established at the Chicago Convention.1924: Birthday of President George ... More info on this event

Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1892: Birthday of Basil Rathbone an actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes on film and stage in the lat... More info on this event

Monday, June 14, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1777: U.S. Congress adopted The Star & Stripes as the U.S. flag.1811: Birthday of aboltionist writer... More info on this event

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1215: King John Lackland of England forced by the country's nobles to sign The Magna Carta at Runnym... More info on this event

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	OnThis Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1873: Suffragist, Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting.1933: National Industrial Recovery Act [NRA] ... More info on this event

Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1775: American Colonial Army defeated by the British Army at the Battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill.183... More info on this event

Friday, June 18, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1815: The Battle of Waterloo was fought in a small village south of Brussels, Belgium, that resulted... More info on this event

Saturday, June 19, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1623: Birthday of French philosopher & mathmetician, Blaise Pascal.1903: Birthday of the slugger for... More info on this event

Sunday, June 20, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1789: The signing of The Tennis Court Oath in Versailles, France by delegates of the Third Estate ... More info on this event

Monday, June 21, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1788: New Hampshire ratifies the U.S. Constitution, puting it into effect.1877: Ten Molly Mc Guires ... More info on this event

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1891: Sherlock Holmes disguised as Sigerson, a Norwegian explorer, meets Irene Adler in Montenegro.1... More info on this event

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1910: Birthday of playwright, Jean Anouilh, known for the play, Becket. It was made into a movie sta... More info on this event

Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1859: The Battle of Solferino which pitted the Italian & French armies against the Austrians in an e... More info on this event

Friday, June 25, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1876: Custer's Last Stand the battle fought on the Little Big Horn River in Montana at which General... More info on this event

Saturday, June 26, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1945: The Charter for the United Nations signed in San Francisco.1947: President Harry S. Truman est... More info on this event

Sunday, June 27, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1869: Birthday of Russian-born U.S. anarchist, Emma Goldman.1880: Birthday of U.S. educator and auth... More info on this event

Monday, June 28, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1712: Birthday of French philosopher marking Age of Enlightenment, Jean Jacques Rosseau.1770: The Q... More info on this event

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1829: The establishment of London's Metropolitan Police Force, Scotland Yard, by Sir Robert Peel. Th... More info on this event

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1970: President Richard M. Nixon announces invasion of U.S. troops into Cambodia.1982: The Equal Rig... More info on this event

July 2010

Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1804: Birthday of French female novelist and companion to Franco-Polish composer, Frederic Chopin, G... More info on this event

Friday, July 2, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1850: Birthday of Sir Robert Peel founder of Scotland Yard.1891: Dr. John H. Watson's first account ... More info on this event

Saturday, July 3, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1835: Children strike in Patterson, NJ for an 11-hour day and 6-day week.1863: The end of The Battle... More info on this event

Sunday, July 4, 2010 1:00 a.m.
	The Fourth of July Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: The Store Will Be Closed in Observance of Independence Day 1776: Signing of Represntatives of 13 col... More info on this event

Monday, July 5, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1935: National Labor Relations Act passed, recognizing workers' rights to organize & bargain collect... More info on this event

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1866: Birthday of the author of The Tales of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter.1894: U.S. troops interfer... More info on this event

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1930: The date upon which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes adventures and s... More info on this event

Thursday, July 8, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1942: Birthday of Otto Penzler mystery author, collection editor, and bookseller.1958: United States... More info on this event

Friday, July 9, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1958: Mystery writer, Dashiell Hammett was sentenced to 6-months imprisonment for refusing to cooper... More info on this event

Saturday, July 10, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1410: Battle of Tannenberg-Grunwald: Polish-Lithuanian Army defeated the Teutonic Knights. 1834: B... More info on this event

Sunday, July 11, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1905: Founding of the Niagara Movement which became the N.A.A.C.P.. 1968: Founding of the American ... More info on this event

Monday, July 12, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1817: Birthday of Henry David Thoreau, an American writer & essayist who was a friend of Ralph Waldo... More info on this event

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1900: Birthday of actor, Ian Hunter who portrayed Sherlock Holmes in the 1932 movie, The Sign of Fou... More info on this event

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1789: Bastille Day, marks the beginning of the French Revolution when French rebels released prisone... More info on this event

Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1815: Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was captured by the British and placed on board H.M.S. Bellerophon ... More info on this event

Friday, July 16, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1821: Birthday of Mary Baker Eddy founder of the Christian Science Movement.1862: Birthday of Ida B.... More info on this event

Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1889: Birthday of American mystery writer, Earl Stanley Gardner who created the mystery solving lawy... More info on this event

Monday, July 19, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1848: First Women's Convention held in Seneca Falls, NY.1881: Sitting Bull of the Sioux surrenders t... More info on this event

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1951: Mattachine Society, an early Gay-Rights Organization formally established in California.... More info on this event

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day,,, Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1864: New Orleans Tribune, a Black-run newspaper began publication.1899: Birthday of American writer... More info on this event

Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1898: Birthday of American author and writer of John Brown's Body, Stephen Vincent Benet.... More info on this event

Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1855: Birthday of William Gillette actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes on stage, and wrote a play ab... More info on this event

Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1898: U.S. Troops invade Puerto Rico to liberate it from Spain.1963: U.S., U.S.S.R., & U.K. signed t... More info on this event

Monday, July 26, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1856: Birthday of George Bernard Shaw, an Ango-Irish playwright, music critic, and pampleteer, who b... More info on this event

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1824: Birthday of French novelist, Alexandre Dumas.1880: Dr. John H. Watson severely wounded by a Je... More info on this event

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1868: Fourteenth Amendent ratified guaranteeing due process to all citizens, but Native Americans. 1... More info on this event

Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1805: Birthday of French political analyst & socialogist, Alexis de Tocqueville who wrote his observ... More info on this event

August 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1431: St. Joan of Arc burned at the stake in Rouen, France by the English.1797: Birthday of Mary Wol... More info on this event

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1888: Polly Nichols became the first victim of Jack the Ripper's rampage in London's Whitechapel dis... More info on this event

September 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day ... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1790: Thomas Jefferson receives news of the French Revolution from Marsailles.1888: Birthday of Arth... More info on this event

Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1919: The founding of the Communist Party in America.1945: The official surrender of Japan on the U.... More info on this event

Friday, September 3, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1783: Paris Peace Treaty signed by the United States of America with Great Britain ending the Americ... More info on this event

Saturday, September 4, 2010 11:00 p.m.
	On This Day... Location: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130 Description: 1768: Birthday of Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, a member of the court of Emperor Napoleon Bonapart... More info on this event

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