Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
An American poet and essayist.
An American actor and director.
an American football player.
A German film director, screenwriter, and an important figures in the New German cinema.
President George Washington signs the first U.S. copyright act into law.
More than 2,000 people die when the South Fork Dam breaks, flooding the city of Johnstown, Pa.
South Africa becomes an independent republic and withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is hanged by the State of Israel for his role in the extermination of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
The United States announces that it is no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union.
Deep Throat, a key source used by reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein while investigating the Watergate break-ins, is revealed to be W. Mark Felt, who was deputy director of the FBI during the scandal.

An American poet, was born on 31st May 1819 in New York. His father was a carpenter. Whitman wrote political speeches, short stories and poems for popular magazines. Leaves of Grass, the first volume of his new kind of poetry, was published in 1855. This issue contained 12 untitled poems. Whitman produced his final edition of Leaves of Grass in 1892. In 1897, "Old Age Echoes," was published. All of his poems were included in the definitive “Reader's Edition” of Leaves of Grass, edited by Sculley Bradley and Harold W. Blodgett. In 1971, he published his essay Democratic Vistas. This essay is considered as discussion of the concept of democracy and its possibilities.
Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal