On the Fourth of July...

No, this is not an X song! Instead I thought it was a good day to remind of you of a few writely events that had nothing to do with fireworks, baseball, or apple pie.

Once upon a time, on the fourth of July, these things happened:

• 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (The Scarlet Letter) was born.
• 1845 Henry David Thoreau begins his 26-month stay at Walden Pond (that's his cabin up there).
• 1855 Walt Whitman publishes the first edition of Leaves of Grass at his own expense.
• 1862 Charles Dodgson first tells the story of Alice's adventures down the rabbit hole during a picnic along the Thames.
• 1865 - 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
• 1895 The poem America the Beautiful is first published.
• 1931 Novelist James Joyce and Nora Barnacle are married in London after being
  together for 26 years.

Any that I'm forgetting?