Today in 1943, the pivotal World War II Battle of Guadalcanal ended with a victory for the Allies. It was the first major victory of the Pacific theater and set the stage for further Allied advances towards Japan.
Also today in 1881, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia. He penned such works as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, both of which were considered to be landmark works in both literature as well as existentialist philosophy.
