On this day :

1963 John F Kennedy assassinated, 1783 John Hanson socalled first president dies, 1900 First Mercedes goes for a test drive, 1864 Hood enters Tennessee, 1963 Kennedy assassinated, 1963 President Kennedy is assassinated, 1950 Commuter trains collide in New York City, 1718 Blackbeard killed off North Carolina, 1988 Stealth bomber unveiled, 1990 Margaret Thatcher resigns, 2002 Die Another Day released 40 years after first Bond film, 1819 George Eliot is born, 1975 KC and the Sunshine band top the US pop charts with Thats The Way I Like It, 1916 Jack London dies of kidney disease, 1963 Kennedy becomes fourth president to be assassinated, 1986 Mike Tyson becomes the youngest heavyweight champ in history, 1963 JFK assassinated in Dallas, 1967 Westmoreland claims US victory at Dak To, 1972 First B52 shot down over North Vietnam, 1914 Fighting suspended in Ypres Salient, 1942 Soviets encircle Germans at Stalingrad,

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.