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I many times thought Peace had come When Peace was far away -- As Wrecked Men -- deem they sight the Land -- At Centre...
9/2 (2023): India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.
11/22 (1574): Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
If I walk in Autumn's even While the dead leaves pass, If I look on Spring's soft heaven,-- Something is not there which was Winter's wondrous frost and snow, Summer's clouds, where are they now?
11/11 (1918): Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
11/1 (1897): Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.
Taste of ours. We have berries, for the parching! Furloughs of down! Estates of violet trouble ne'er looked on! We bring reprieve of roses! Flasks of air! Even for Death, a fairy medicine. But, which is it, sir?
Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of light Speed thee in thy fiery flight, In what cavern of the night Will thy pinions close now? Tell me, Moon, thou pale and gray Pilgrim of Heaven's homeless way, In what depth...
In snow thou comest -- Thou shalt go with the resuming ground, The sweet derision of the crow, And Glee's advancing sound. In fear thou...
This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
1/1 (1914): The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
The good Will of a Flower The Man who would possess Must first present Certificate Of minted Holiness.
11/9 (2011): The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m.
1/15 (1966): The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
6/19 (1586): English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
My head is wild with weeping for a grief Which is the shadow of a gentle mind. I walk into the air (but no relief To seek,--or haply, if I sought, to find; It came unsought);--to wonder that a chief...
Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?
Who has not found the Heaven -- below -- Will fail of it above -- For Angels rent the House next ours, Wherever we remove...
Growth of Man -- like Growth of Nature -- Gravitates within -- Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it -- Bit it stir -- alone -- Each...
1/1 (1860): The first Polish postage stamp is issued, replacing the Russian stamps previously in use.
1/1 (1982): Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
5/8 (1877): At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
Her final Summer was it -- And yet We guessed it not -- If tenderer industriousness Pervaded Her, We thought A further force of life...