J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel. It was published in 1937 to widespread critical acclaim, earning it a Carnegie Medal nomination and a New York Herald Tribune award for best juvenile fiction. The book is still widely read and considered a classic in children's literature.

Sir Allen Lane CH (21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who founded Penguin Books in 1935 with his brothers Richard and John Lane, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.

AT&T announced plans to split its operations into three companies: communications services, communications equipment, and computers. AT&T's core telephone service will be provided by the communications services company, which will retain the powerful AT&T brand name.

Herbert George Wells, born on September 21, 1866, was an English writer. He was a prolific writer of many genres, having written over fifty novels and dozens of short stories. Nonfiction works by him included social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is now best known for his science fiction novels, for which he has been dubbed the "Father of Science Fiction."

The United Nations General Assembly established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to declare the Day a period of nonviolence and cease-fire. The United Nations invites all nations and people to observe a cessation of hostilities on the Day, as well as to commemorate the Day through education and public awareness on peace issues.

Kwame Nkrumah PC was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary who lived from 21 September 1909 to 27 April 1972. He was Ghana's first Prime Minister and President, leading the country to independence from Britain in 1957. Nkrumah, a prominent proponent of Pan-Africanism, was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem rotor helicopter designed and manufactured by American rotorcraft company Vertol. The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is one of the most powerful Western helicopters. Chinook is derived from the Native American Chinook people of Oregon and Washington state.

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is a horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novelist from the United States. His books have sold over 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. He is known as the "King of Horror," a play on his surname and a reference to his celebrity in pop culture. King has written 64 novels, seven of which were published under the pen name Richard Bachman, as well as five non-fiction books. He has also written about 200 short stories, the majority of which have appeared in book collections.