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9/2 (1957): President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
7/14 (1853): Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
You see I cannot see -- your lifetime -- I must guess -- How many times it ache for me -- today -- Confess --...
Had I presumed to hope -- The loss had been to Me A Value -- for the Greatness' Sake -- As Giants -- gone away...
3/17 (1862): The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened.
Spring comes on the World -- I sight the Aprils -- Hueless to me until thou come As, till the Bee Blossoms stand negative, Touched...
When a lover clasps his fairest, Then be our dread sport the rarest. Their caresses were like the chaff In the tempest, and be our laugh His despair--her epitaph!
"Father, father, where are you going? Oh do not walk so fast!
OH how I wish that an embargo Had kept in port the good ship Argo! Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks, Had never passed the Azure rocks; But now I fear her trip will be a Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc., etc.
Now I knew I lost her -- Not that she was gone -- But Remoteness travelled On her Face and Tongue. Alien, though adjoining As...
5/8 (1924): The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
7/20 (1997): The fully restored USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
5/1 (1844): Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
Lain in Nature -- so suffice us The enchantless Pod When we advertise existence For the missing Seed -- Maddest Heart that God created Cannot...
9/2 (2023): India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.
9/2 (1561): Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots into Edinburgh, a spectacular civic celebration for the Queen of Scotland, marred by religious controversy.
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown -- Who ponders this tremendous scene --...
4/22 (1944): The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
WOMEN sit, or move to and fro—some old, some young; The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young.
11/1 (996): Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
2/12 (1689): The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
JOHN ADAMS lies here, of the parish of Southwell, A _Carrier_ who _carried_ his can to his mouth well; He carried so much and he carried so fast, He could carry no more--so was carried at last; For the liquor...
4/9 (1969): The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford with Brian Trubshaw as the test pilot.
9/2 (1945): World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, thus marking the official end to the war.