1570 – Jesuits led by Fray Batista Segura arrived in Virginia for the purpose of converting the American Indians to Christianity. Unfortunately, six months later, the entire group was massacred by the Indians they had come to evangelize.

1861 – The federal government levied an income tax for the first time.

1889 – Conrad Aiken, American poet, novelist and critic, was born  in Savannah, Georgia.  While still young, his father killed his mother and committed suicide himself, a tragedy that had a profound impact on Aiken for the rest of his life.  Most of Aiken’s poetry reflects an interest in psychoanalysis and in the development of identity.

To My Wife
  by: Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)

Whatever loveliness is in this music,
Whatever yearning after lovely things,–
Whatever crying after stars, in darkness,
Whatever beating of impeded wings:

Whatever climbing of the rose to sunlight,
Sweet-hearted laugh from the dark blind sod:
Whatever madness of the sea for moonlight,
Whatever yearning of the good to God:

All that is beautiful, and all that looks on beauty
With eyes filled with fire, like a lover’s eyes:
All of this is yours; you gave it to me, sunlight!
All these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies!

1966 – The Beatle’s album Revolver was released.