According to History.com, on this day in 1840, "The Murders in Rue Morgue" was accepted for publication. Edgar Allan Poe's tale of the detective Dupin and the murdered women and simian suspect set the stage for what was then the brand new mystery genre. Less than a decade after the tale's publication, however, Poe, who had been struggling with alcoholism and penury, was discovered delirious (some have said face down in the gutter) on the streets of Baltimore and died in Washington College Hospital the next day. Many theories have been put forward as to the cause of death; in 2008, the University of Maryland suggested it may have been rabies.
http://www.umm.edu/news/releases/news-releases-17.htm
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