1973 Event David Eisenhower writes his last sports column 1967 Event Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife) 1964 Event Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene" 1963 Event Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo" 1961 Birthday Tom Holt, born in London, author, British novelist, writes mythopoeic novels that parody mythology, history, literature 1959 Event Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," San Francisco 1950 Birthday Bernie Taupin, lyricist, writes with Elton John 1942 Birthday Paul McCartney, born in Liverpool, England, rocker, Beatles, writes love songs 1930 Event Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" 1900 Event AL President Ban Johnson writes to NL President Nick Young seeking peace 1893 Event Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado 1887 Event Eduard Douwes Dekker writes his last text (Lf8-c5) 1861 Event Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state 1860 Event 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard 1855 Event Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet 1846 Event Alexis the Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem" 1830 Event Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides" 1818 Event Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," and "Gadfly" 1818 Event Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair" 1789 Event Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes" 1776 Event Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls" 1773 Event Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace" 1640 Event Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
