It’s been a while since I’ve posted any this day in history news. A few tidbits for today:

On this day in history in 1927 novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist Gabriel García Márquez was born in Columbia. Among his most famous books are One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.  Sharing his birthday is Alan Greenspan, who was born a year earlier, in 1926.

On this day in history in 1931, the first radio newsreel debuted.

On this day in history in 1981, Walter Cronkite signed off from the CBS Evening News for the last time after spending 19 years with the program.

Moving into the future, what are you doing tomorrow morning? Be sure to check out the University of Nebraska Press’s own Alan Zaremba on NPR’s Only a Game. Alan will be on the show (which airs locally on NET Radio, 91.1 FM) talking about his new book The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas. The program airs on NET Radio at 7 a.m.