On this day :

1940 Lascaux cave paintings discovered, 1777 Congress receives news of defeat at Brandywine, 1993 New floating bridge opens in Seattle I90 stretches from coast to coast, 1861 The First Battle of Lexington Missouri begins, 1990 German occupation rights are relinquished, 2002 Tyco execs indicted, 1988 Hurricane Gilbert slams Jamaica, 1953 JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 1953 Khrushchev elected Soviet leader, 1974 Violence in Boston over racial busing, 1977 Steven Biko dies, 2004 Season One of Entouragea TV show about life in Hollywoodcomes to an end, 1846 Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elope, 1944 Barry White is born, 1972 Hopalong Cassidy rides off into his last sunset, 1953 John F Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport Rhode Island, 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson wins back belt, 1959 Situation deteriorates in South Vietnam, 1972 US intelligence agencies report 100000 troops in the South, 1918 US launches SaintMihiel offensive, 1942 The Laconia is sunk,

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.