1327    The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.

1878    In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.

1903    Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.

1911    French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the ''Mona Lisa'' from the Louvre museum.

1958    A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.