On this day :

1095 Pope Urban II orders first Crusade, 1746 The Chancellor is born, 2007 Indy 500 champ Hlio Castroneves wins Dancing with the Stars, 1863 John Hunt Morgan escapes from the Ohio Penitentiary, 1954 Alger Hiss released from prison, 1978 San Francisco leaders George Moscone and Harvey Milk are murdered, 1703 Freak storm dissipates over England, 1940 Iron Guard massacres former Romanian government, 1957 Nehru appeals for disarmament, 1940 Bruce Lee born, 1786 Robert Burns postpones emigration to Jamaica, 1942 Jimi Hendrix born, 2005 Aerosmith and 50 Cent headline a 10 million bar mitzvah, 1868 Custer massacres Cheyenne on Washita River, 1911 White House housekeeper frets over presidential waistline, 1965 Gordie Howe scores his 600th goal, 1965 Pentagon calls for troop increase, 1970 South Vietnamese forces attacked near Cambodian border, 1914 Hindenburg celebrates Warsaw campaign, 1942 French scuttle their fleet,

Poems

A long dignified narrative poem which gives the account of a hero important to his nation or race. An epic ordinarily is concerned with a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.