Today in history: Dylan Thomas Day, "Mrs. Dalloway" 

May 14 is International Dylan Thomas Day, as our Facebook and Instagram followers know.

But it's neither Thomas's birthday nor death date; it's actually the day in 1953 that his poem "Under Milk Wood" was first read on stage at 92Y The Poetry Center, New York.

That's according to the website Discover Dylan Thomas, run by the poet's granddaughter, and where we found the Beatles-related fun fact about him.

(The other fact, courtesy of Classic Rock magazine, was about how a Thomas poem inspired musician Don Henley to write the song "Boys of Summer.")

May 14 is also the publication day — and, this year, a milestone one — of the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

In honor of its centennial, Literary Hub has Emily Temple's collection of 100 different Mrs. Dalloway covers to admire and teacher Mia Manzulli's reflection on teaching Mrs. Dalloway to high school students today.

And, confession: time slipped away yesterday without our sharing two posts relevant to May 13 that we just can't bear to leave until next year.

So here's a 1946 newsreel featuring author Daphne Du Maurier — born on May 13, 1907 — and an article on the poetry contest that Edna St. Vincent Millay — who went on to become the first female Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner on May 13, 1923 — lost, to the embarrassment of all involved.