April 21- Foundation of Rome

1 Ardibehesht,    Oormazd = Ahooraa Mazdaa = The Life Giving-Great Wise One. day

1980: Sohrab Sepehri the Poet & painter death
Sohrab Sepehri (Persian: سهراب سپهری‎ translit: Suhrāb Sipihrī) (October 7, 1928 - April 21, 1980) was a popular modern Iranian poet and painter. He was born in Kashan in Isfahan prvince . He is frequently counted among the five famous modern Iranian poets who have practised "New Poetry" (a kind of poetry that often has neither meter nor rhyme), the others being Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Forough Farrokhzad, all of them now dead. He died in pars hospital in Tehran by blood cancer.

The Foot Steps Of Water
Life's a pleasant tradition.
Life's wing is as vast as death.
Life's a jump the size of love.
Life's not something,
we put on the mantel of habit
and forget.
It does not matter where I am.
The sky is always mine.
Windows, ideas, air, love,
earth, all mine.
Why does it matter if sometimes,
the mushrooms of nostalgia grow?

Let's take off our clothes.
Water is just a foot away.
Let's have a basket and
fill it up with all the greens
and all the reds.

We are not to comprehend;
the secret of roses, but maybe
swimming in the incantation of roses.
Or may be looking for
the song of truth
between the morning glory,
and the century.
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753 BC    Traditional date of the foundation of Rome.

43 BC    Marcus Antonius is defeated by Octavian near Modena, Italy.

1526    Mongol Emperor Babur annihilates the Indian Army of Ibrahim Lodi.

1649    The Maryland Toleration Act is passed, allowing all people freedom of worship.

1689    William III and Mary II are crowned joint king and queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.

1836    General Sam Houston defeats Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. Texas wins independence from Mexico.

1862    Congress establishes the U.S. Mint.

1865    Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington.

1898    The Spanish-American War begins.

1910    Mark Twain dies at the age of 75.

1916    Bill Carlisle, the infamous 'last train robber,' robs a train in Hanna, Wyoming.

1914    U.S. Marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico. They will stay six months.

1918    German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," is shot down and killed.

1943    President Roosevelt announces that several Doolittle pilots have been executed by Japanese.

1960    Brasilia becomes the capital of Brazil.

1961    The French army revolts in Algeria.

1966    Pfc. Milton Lee Olive is awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, for bravery during the Vietnam War.

1975    The last South Vietnam president, Nguyen Van Thieu, resigns.

1995        Federal authorities arrest Timothy McVeigh in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing.

Born on April 21

1782    Friedrich Froebel, founder of kindergarten.
1816    Charlotte Bronte, novelist (Jane Eyre).
1838    John Muir, naturalist.
1849    Oskar Hertwig, embryologist.
1864    Max Weber, German sociologist and political economist.
1909    Rollo May, psychologist.
1912    Marcel Camus, French film director (Black Orpheus).
1923    John Mortimor, British barrister and playwright (Rumpole of the Bailey).
1926    Elizabeth II, queen of England.
1932    Elaine May, comedy writer.

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