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41st year  -  N° 138                 Monday, 18 May 2026         Antwerpen		
Through the Night Softly
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Sunday 27th of May 1827
199 years, 11 months and 22 days ago




18-year-old writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe enlists in the US Army as private Edgar A. Perry in Fort Independence, Castle Island, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Poe claimed he was 22 years old even though he was 18 and first served at Fort Independence for five dollars a month.