This Day in History poem by: T.S. Eliot

Birthday's:
Sinclair Lewis: 1885, the first American to win the nobel prize in literature.
1966: Chris Rock


In 1964 the British Invasion was on with The Beatles making their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, which the following day Steve Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen have said "We put our baseball bats down and wanted picked up guitars."


Cousin Nancy
By: T.S. Eliot

Miss Nancy Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them, 
Rode across the hills and broke them-
The barren New England hills-
Riding to hounds 
Over the cow-pasture. 

Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it, 
But they knew that it was modern. 

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith, 
The army of unalterable law. 




Sources:
The Encyclopedia Brittanica
T.S. Eliot "Collected Poems 1909-1962"