On this day, in times long past:
French King Henry breathed his last
As Ravaillac’s blade his lights put out*;
The State of Israel came about:
New country formed in ‘48
Amid fierce Middle East debate;
The Warsaw Pact** was signed and sealed:
Realpolitik - Cold War revealed!
Space Race: high-tech, Land of the Free
Saw Skylab launched in ‘73
And someone of whose name you’ve heard
Birth of Facebook’s Zuckerberg***!
(c) Poet in the woods 2024
* King Henri IV 1610
** 1955
*** Mark Zuckerberg born 1984
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