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Rome's greatest poet enters the world
Near the village of Andes in Cisalpine Gaul, Publius Vergilius Maro was born into a farming family. He would become the supreme poet of the Roman Empire, composing the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the immortal Aeneid, an epic that gave Rome its founding myth and became the cornerstone of Western literature for two thousand years.
Spain's master of absurd comedy arrives
In Madrid, Enrique Jardiel Poncela was born with a gift for making audiences laugh at the impossible. He would become one of Spain's most inventive playwrights and novelists, crafting humorous works that pushed the boundaries of the absurd. His comedic genius anticipated the Theatre of the Absurd decades before it became fashionable.
Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the.
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest, second-costliest, and most intense hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed at least 469 people in Haiti before it struck the United States near the border between North and South Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane. After causing 95 fatalities in the US, Hazel struck Canada as an extratropical storm, which raised the death toll by 81 people, mostly in Toronto.