On this day :

1979 IsraelEgyptian peace agreement signed, 1776 South Carolina approves new constitution, 2008 Ford sells Jaguar and Land Rover to Indias Tata, 1864 McPherson takes over the Army of the Tennessee, 1950 McCarthy charges that Owen Lattimore is a Soviet spy, 1987 Torture chamber uncovered in Philadelphia, 1872 Deadly earthquake hits California, 1953 Salk announces polio vaccine, 1997 Heavens Gate cult members found dead, 2000 American Beauty tops Academy Awards, 1920 F Scott Fitzgeralds first novel published, 1955 Black music gets whitewashed as Georgia Gibbs hits the pop charts with The Wallflower Dance Wit, 1832 The steamboat Yellowstone heads for Montana, 1804 Jefferson presented with a mammoth loaf of bread, 1979 Michigan State defeats Indiana State in NCAA championship, 1969 Antiwar demonstration in Washington, 1975 Hue falls to the communists, 1917 First Battle of Gaza, 1941 Naval warfare gets new weapon,

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.